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The deformity of theory in psychoanalysis

The deformity of theory in psychoanalysis Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 In our great cities, placards announce lectures that undertake to tell us how to get into touch with the souls of the departed and it cannot be denied that not a few of the most able and pen- etrating minds among our men of science have come to the conclusion, especially toward the close of their own lives, that a contact of this kind is not impossible. Sigmund Freud, "The 'Uncanny'" A certain foreign body is ... working over our household words. Jacques Derrida, "Fors: The Anglish VPords of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok" robert white foreign body is at work in psychoanalysis. In this essay, I want to follow the recurrence in Freud's writing of the term Fremdkörper — THE DEFORMITY OF "foreign body" — in order to advance an argu- THEORY IN ment about the traumatic genealogy of psycho- analysis and the conceptual disruption which PSYCHOANALYSIS runs through it. I take this term to mark, when- ever it appears, a hollowing-out of meaning, a ing. As we will see, "foreign body" connotes the moment when psychoanalytic argument loses its precarious, sometimes pernicious, in any case fluency as if somehow http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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Angelaki: journal of the theoretical humanities 3:1 1998 In our great cities, placards announce lectures that undertake to tell us how to get into touch with the souls of the departed and it cannot be denied that not a few of the most able and pen- etrating minds among our men of science have come to the conclusion, especially toward the close of their own lives, that a contact of this kind is not impossible. Sigmund Freud, "The 'Uncanny'" A certain foreign body is ... working over our household words. Jacques Derrida, "Fors: The Anglish VPords of Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok" robert white foreign body is at work in psychoanalysis. In this essay, I want to follow the recurrence in Freud's writing of the term Fremdkörper — THE DEFORMITY OF "foreign body" — in order to advance an argu- THEORY IN ment about the traumatic genealogy of psycho- analysis and the conceptual disruption which PSYCHOANALYSIS runs through it. I take this term to mark, when- ever it appears, a hollowing-out of meaning, a ing. As we will see, "foreign body" connotes the moment when psychoanalytic argument loses its precarious, sometimes pernicious, in any case fluency as if somehow

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Published: Apr 1, 1998

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