1st Edition

Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida

By Jane Marie Todd Copyright 1990
234 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

228 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1990. This uniquely fascinating study approaches the problem of autobiography from two directions: first assessing theories of the self, consciousness and language developed by both Freud and Derrida; second through the reading of the autobiographical aspects of their writings. The book begins with looking at the issue of making sense of a life by means of representation,... Read more

Introduction Part 1: Autobiographics as Cure The Scene of Analysis 1. Obsession and Narrative Line 2. Fragments of Dora/Fragments of Freud Part 2: The Genealogy of Psychoanalysis Foundations 3. Screened Memories 4. The Interpretation of Dreams as Work of Mourning Part 3: The Self and the Sign 5. The Self and the Sign Part 4: Autobiographics as Reste: Derrida’s Glas Glas and the Logic of the Unconscious 6. Thanatopraxis 7. Signature Part 5: The Fort/Da of Autobiography Psychoanalysis and the Postal Service 8. The Legacy of Beyond the Pleasure Principle 9. The Literary Framework. Conclusion

Biography

Jane Marie Todd