Deferring the self. Studies in social sciences, philosophy and history of ideas ; Vol. 2

Tadelloses Exemplar. - Contents -- Introduction: Practicing the Humanities 9 -- 1. The politics of reading 10 -- 2. The question of method 13 -- 3. Styles of practicing the humanities 14 -- 4. The practices of dislocation 16 -- 5. Psychoanalysis, politics and art 18 -- 6. The clinic of politics 21 -- 7. Deferring (nachiraglich) the Self 23 -- 8. Practice 25 -- PART ONE: -- PSYCHOANALYSIS 29 -- I. Consent and Resistance to Psychoanalysis 31 -- 1. The renaissance of psychoanalysis in question 31 -- 2. Psychoanalysis as an anthropology 35 -- 3. Unreason and Enlightenment 36 -- 4. Kiihur or fantasies about nature 38 -- 5. The future of psychoanalysis 41 -- II. Foucault reads Freud: the Dialogue with Unreason -- and Enlightenment 45 -- 1. Presence of the name 45 -- 2. Freud in Foucault's work: critical presence 49 -- 3. Who reads what? 55 -- 4. There once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge . 60 -- 5. Freedom and psychoanalysis 64 -- III. The Concept of the Death Drive. -- Reading Slavoj Zizek's Opera s Second Death 69 -- 1. Plan 69 -- 2. Wagner und haunted subjects 71 -- 3. Death drive 72 -- 4. The death drive as the mask of the symbolic order 76 -- 5. The return of the dead 80 -- IV. Rethinking Deconstruction: -- Why Deconstruction is Inventive or It is Nothing at All? 83 -- 1. The question of school 83 -- 2. Is deconstruction a form destruction? 85 -- 3. Is deconstruction a method of analysis? 87 -- 4. Is deconstruction a method of critique? 89 -- 5. Is deconstruction a practice of reading? 93 -- 6. The ethics of deconstruction 95 -- 7. Invention 98 -- V. Roland Barthes reads Michel Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory 103 -- 1. Adjacency and randomness 103 -- 2. Painting entitled Michel Houellebecq, Writer 108 -- 3. Father or the Pre-Raphaelites 113 -- 4. Involuntary images 116 -- VI. The Return of Alcibiades. A Tale on Repression of Eros 119 -- 1. Alcibiades' Mystery 119 -- 2. Educational Failure 125 -- 3. Seductive Satyr 129 -- 4. The Return of Alcibiades 133 -- PART TWO: -- POLITICS 141 -- I. The Limits of the Political 143 -- 1. The very concept of the political today 143 -- 2. Diagnosis: from the end of politics to the reinvention of politics 146 -- 3. What is politics proper? 153 -- 4. The concept of the political as the parasites concept 153 -- 5. The concept of the proper politics as a concept of representation 155 -- 6. Politics, politizations and depolitizations 158 -- II. Mourning Populism: the Case of Poland 161 -- 1. Populism in question 161 -- 2. Not populism but the logic of populism 164 -- 3. Populism in Poland 169 -- 4. Populism after trauma 173 -- 5. From mourning to narcissism 181 -- III. Beyond Identity. Beyond Europe 185 -- 1. Europe and the problem of identity 185 -- 2. The idea of recognition 190 -- 3. The reification of identity 191 -- 4. Two politics 192 -- 5. Fragmentation of identities 194 -- 6. The metaphysical heritage of Europe 196 -- 7. Europe again 200 ISBN 9783631641613