Resistances of Psychoanalysis

by Jacques Derrida

Book Overview

In the three essays that make up this stimulating and often startling book, Jacques Derrida argues against the notion that the basic ideas of psychoanalysis have been thoroughly worked through, argued, and assimilated. The continuing interest in psychoanalysis is here examined in the various "resistances" to analysis--conceived not only as a phenomenon theorized at the heart of psychoanalysis, but as psychoanalysis's resistance to itself, an insusceptibility...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804730199
• ISBN13: 9780804730198
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"