Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan

Hurst, Andrea

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“…Indeed, on the basis of their isomorphism, several recent commentators have equated Derrida's and Lacan's theories (see Hurst 2008;Lewis 2008). Others correlate the normativity of Lacan's critical theory with deconstruction's 'ethics of hospitality' (see Critchley 1999).…”

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Anxiety and Aporia: Or, What, for Lacan, Makes Deconstruction Reassuring?

Buckner

2015

Culture, Theory and Critique

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While originally Lacan seconds Heidegger's contention that 'anxiety has no object', in the early 1960s, he dismisses his own earlier position as a childish reassurance and argues, to the contrary, that 'anxiety is not without an object'. With particular attention to his use of the double negative, 'not without', this essay examines this turning point in Lacan's thinking in order to explain the opposition between his psychoanalytic critical theory and Derrida's deconstruction. The arguments that Lacan brings to bear on his work of the 1950s closely approximate those that Derrida levels against Heidegger in the formulation of his own concept of 'the aporia of the impossible'. Indeed, as commentators often emphasise, the formal logic of Lacan's later thinking is strictly isomorphic with Derrida's philosophy; and their respective concepts of anxiety and aporia are frequently misconstrued, accordingly, as simply identical. However, insofar as Lacan discerns a content in this formal negativity, contesting the idealism of his earlier theory and reasserting the materialist objectivity of the Freudian 'lost object,' as intractably Real, the two do not coincide. On the contrary, Lacan's repudiation of Heidegger's concept of anxiety extends equally to Derrida's aporia, as if, for Derrida, Heidegger's existential phenomenology were not reassuring enough.

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Anxiety and Aporia: Or, What, for Lacan, Makes Deconstruction Reassuring?

Buckner

2015

Culture, Theory and Critique

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“…Like Freud’s note, the archive can be seen ‘as a materialised portion’ of a mnemic apparatus. It is not that the archive reproduces lived experience (Hurst, 2008: 139), rather, it is this ‘materialised portion’ that we recall, and that thus becomes the object of memory. It is this object, which is the re-representation of the absent past, which the archive as a mnemonic system produces.…”

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The Laws of Memory

Campbell

2012

Social & Legal Studies

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The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) has generated huge archival holdings. With the ICTY’s impending closure, the archive has become part of broader debates regarding its legacy for the former Yugoslavia. In particular, the memorial function of this archive has now become highly contentious. Ultimately, these concern the relationship between law and collective memory. This article uses the example of the ICTY archive to explore the relationship between law and memory in post-conflict transition. It argues that this ‘legal archive’ functions as a mnemonic system that produces ‘legal memory’ through its juridical, international, and transitional structure. It then considers the competing discourses of how the legal archive remembers or forgets the justice of law and the injustice of war. Ultimately, these discourses figure the archive as a ‘legal memorial’ that fails to produce collective memory. For this reason, I develop an alternative concept of ‘memorial law’ in order to suggest other memorial practices that can sustain legal memory as a living memory, rather than as a dead archive.

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“…1 Suggestions for such a system have been set out (cf. Hurst 2004Hurst , 2008, although none go as far back as Derrida's fi rst work of 1954. Separate approaches have also been undertaken to track Derrida's 'logic' as it emerged from his engagement with Husserl, between 1954and 1967(cf.…”

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Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Deception

Seigal¹

2010

Forum Philosophicum

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Derrida Vis-à-vis Lacan

Cited by 23 publications

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Anxiety and Aporia: Or, What, for Lacan, Makes Deconstruction Reassuring?

Anxiety and Aporia: Or, What, for Lacan, Makes Deconstruction Reassuring?

The Laws of Memory

Skeptical Theism, Moral Skepticism, and Divine Deception

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