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Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care

By Alan Bass

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0804753377, 9780804753371, 9781435608856
LCC
B824.17 .B37 2006
Open Library ID
OL22740850M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
497 kB (508811 bytes)
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Edition
1
Pages
216\217
Time added
2011-04-11 19:55:47

Description

This book is the companion to Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), which dealt with the psychoanalytic clinical problem of resistance to interpretation. The key to this resistance is the unconscious registration and repudiation (disavowal) of the reality of difference. The surprising generality of this resistance intersects with Nietzsche's, Heidegger's, and Derrida's understanding of how and why difference is in general the ''unthought of metaphysics.'' All three see metaphysics engaged with a ''registration and repudiation of difference,'' and all three rethink interpretation in relation to this question. The synthesis of these theories of interpretation and difference provides the philosophical foundations for a new thinking of how interpretation functions, and is a critical intersection of deconstruction and psychoanalysis.

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