Derrida Vis-À-VIS Lacan: Interweaving Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis

by Andrea Hurst

Book Overview

Derrida and Lacan have long been viewed as proponents of two opposing schools of thought. This book argues, however, that the logical structure underpinning Lacanian psychoanalytic theory is a complex, paradoxical relationality that corresponds to Derrida's "plural logic of the aporia." Andrea Hurst begins by linking this logic to a strand of thinking (in which Freud plays a part) that unsettles philosophy's transcendental tradition. She then shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823228754
• ISBN13: 9780823228751
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 484 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 8.9"