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Sidestepping: “Freud After Derrida”
- Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 44, Number 3, September 2011
- pp. 1-14
- 10.1353/mos.2011.a450726
- Article
- Additional Information
The thought of Freud accompanied the work of Derrida from beginning to end, even if its “concepts,” as Derrida wrote, were “inadequate” to the task it had set for itself. Derrida’s own notion of “auto-immunity” can thus be seen as an effort to rethink and elaborate the implications of Freud’s notion of a “death-drive.” But Freud’s concepts can also serve to rethink Derrida’s own project as well. Each comes and is “after” the other.