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- Title
Animality in Lacan and Derrida: the Deconstruction of the Other.
- Authors
Direk, Zeynep
- Abstract
In The Beast and the Sovereign, Derrida’s last seminar, Derrida criticizes Lacan for making no room for animality in the Other, in the unconscious transindividual normativity of language. In this paper, I take into account the history of Derrida’s interactions with Lacan’s psychoanalysis to argue that Derrida’s early agreement with Lacan’s conception of subjectivity as split by the signifier gives place in his late thought to a deconstruction of Lacan’s fall into humanist metaphysics, which makes a sharp moral distinction between the animal and the human in order to subordinate animals to the domination of mankind.
- Subjects
PSYCHOANALYSIS; DECONSTRUCTION; NORMATIVITY (Ethics); HUMANISTIC ethics; METAPHYSICS
- Publication
Sophia, 2018, Vol 57, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
0038-1527
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11841-017-0626-5