Prisila ponavljanja s onu stranu Freuda
Repetition Compulsion Beyond Freud

fort-da Between Lacan and Derrida

Summary/Abstract: It is well known that the Lacan–Derrida strife begins with the Seminar on the “Purloined Letter”, but a more thorough genealogy of dispute over valid interpretations of Freud’s legacy has widely been neglected. Freud’s speculative text Beyond the Pleasure Principle (1920) is ambivalent in that radical new terms (death drive, repetition compulsion, economic principle in psychic apparatus) are introduced while being contradicted in Freud’s elaboration. This interpretative dissonance is reconciled by Lacan’s interventions, i.e. either by new distinctions into old terms (Trieb vs. Instinkt), or by entirely new terms (l’automatisme de répétition, symbolic and imaginary order). Derrida makes a claim to be responding to the Beyond the Pleasure Principle without imprisoning it in a single and unified interpretation. His reading renders Freud’s text close to fiction and deconstruction, which also represents a form of resistance to Lacanian institutionalisation of Freud.

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