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Resistances of
Psychoanalysis.
RESISTANCES
"Resistance must be
interpreted; it has as much meaning as what it opposes; it is
just as charged with meaning and thus just as interpretable as
that which it disguises or displaces: in truth, it has the same
meaning, but dialectically or polemically adverse, if one can
say that."1a
"Three types of
resistance proceed from the ego, the id, and the superego.
Those that come from ego . . . are also of three sorts and differ
among themselves as regards the dynamic. One has to do with
repression . . . Another has to do with transference
and sometimes retriggers repression because it consolidates
repression rather than recalling it. Finally, the third
egological resistance . . . integrates the symptom into the ego
and seeks a benefit in the illness."1b
"What is called
"deconstruction" undeniably obeys an analytic exigency,
at once critical and analytic. It is always a matter of
undoing, desedimenting, decomposing, deconstituting sediments,
artefacta, presuppositions, institutions. And the
insistence on unbinding, disjunction, dissociation, the being "out
of joint" . . ."1c
"TO DO JUSTICE TO FREUD": THE
HISTORY OF MADNESS IN THE AGE OF PSYCHOANALYSIS
"Psychoanalysis . . .
breaks with psychology by speaking with the Unreason that
speaks within madness and thus, by returning through this
exchange of words, not to the classical age itself--which also
determined madness as Unreason, but, unlike psychology, did so
only in order to exclude or confine it--but toward this eve of the
classical age, which still haunted it."1d
"What persists from Pinel
to Freud, in spite of all the differences, is the figure of the
doctor as a man not of knowledge but of order. In this
figure all secret, magic, esoteric, thaumaturgical powers
are brought together-- and these are all Foucalt's words.
The scientific objectivity that is claimed by this tradition is
only a magical reification."1e
"Fictive omnipotence and
a divine, or rather "quasi-divine," power, divine by simulacrum,
at once divine and satanic--these are the very traits of an Evil
Genius, which are now being attributed to the figure of the
doctor."f
"Since we have been
following for so long now the obsessive avatars of the Evil
Genius, the irresistible, demonic, and metamorphic returns
of this quasi-God, of God's second in command, this metempsychotic
Satan, we here find Freud himself once again, Freud, to
whom Foucault leaves a choice between only two roles: the bad
genius, and the good one."1g
"The point is to analyze not simply
behaviors, ideas, or ideologies but, above all, the
problematizations in which a thought of being intersects
"practices" and "practices of the self," a "genealogy of practices
of the self" through which these problematizations are formed.
With its reflexive vigilance and care in thinking itself in its
rigorous specificity, such an analysis thus calls for the
problematization of its own problematization."1h
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Italics in the original.
1
Jacques Derrida. Resistances of
Psychoanalysis. Translated by Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne
Brault, and Michael Naas. Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford
Junior University, 1998. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press,
1998. (Originally published in France in 1996 as
R�sistance de la psychanalise
by Editions Galil�e.)
a 1. Resistances, at 13.
b Ibid.,
at 21-22.
c Ibid.,
at 27
d 3. To Do
Justice to Freud": The History of Madness in the Age of
Psychoanalysis, at 82.
e Ibid.,
at 92.
f Ibid.,
at 95.
g Ibid.,
at 111.
h
Ibid.,
at 115.
MK-BOOK-DERRIDA-20110217.
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