SLUMBERING KISSES, SHAMELESS ENTANGLEMENTS: “la découverte de freud”

Abstract

This essay focuses on the profound relationship between psychoanalysis and deconstruction. It reads Jacques Derrida's suggestion that an “effect of deferral” both drives and disrupts the entire Freudian corpus. It suggests, in turn, that Freud's engagements with this “effect of deferral” are, like the navel of the dream, knots in the Freudian text, entanglements which speak of what will nevertheless remain unspeakable. My reading goes via the “Project...