Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I

Jacques Derrida

Stanford University Press, 2007 - Philosophy - 460 pages

Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others. The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man, Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, "Psyche: Invention of the Other," "The Retrait of Metaphor," "At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am," "Tours de Babel" and "Racism's Last Word"), as well as three essays that appear here in English for the first time.

Contents

• The Retrait of Metaphor: 48
• What Remains by Force of Music: 81
• To Illustrate He Said S: 90
• Envoi: 94
• MePsychoanalysis: 129
• At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am: 143
• Des tours de Babel: 191
• Telepathy: 226
• 10 Ex abrupto: 262
• SII The Deaths of Roland Barthes: 264
• Platos Letter: 299
• Geopsychoanalysis and the rest of the world: 318
• A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies: 344
• 15 Racisms Last Word: 377
• Notes: 411
• Sources: 432

About the author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and Professor of Humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Among the most recent of his many books to have been translated into English are H. C. for Life, That Is to Say (2006), Paper Machine (2005), On Touching Jean-Luc Nancy (2005), Rogues (2005), and Eyes of the University(2004). All of these have been published by the Stanford University Press. Peggy Kamuf is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Elizabeth Rottenberg is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Psyche: Inventions of the Other, Volume I; Meridian (Stanford University Press); Meridian (Stanford, Calif.); Volume 1 of Meridian, crossing aesthetics; Volume 1 of Psyche: Inventions of the Other
• Author: Jacques Derrida
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2007
• ISBN: 0804747989, 9780804747981
• Length: 460 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Philosophy / Movements / Deconstruction