RT Article
T1 Animality in Lacan and Derrida: the Deconstruction of the Other
JF Sophia
VO 57
IS 1
SP 21
OP 37
A1 Direk, Zeynep
LA English
PB Springer Netherlands
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1580831435
AB In The Beast and the Sovereign, Derrida's last seminar, Derrida criticizes Lacan for making no room for animality in the Other, in the unconscious transindividual normativity of language. In this paper, I take into account the history of Derrida's interactions with Lacan's psychoanalysis to argue that Derrida's early agreement with Lacan's conception of subjectivity as split by the signifier gives place in his late thought to a deconstruction of Lacan's fall into humanist metaphysics, which makes a sharp moral distinction between the animal and the human in order to subordinate animals to the domination of mankind.
K1 Animality
K1 Deconstruction
K1 Derrida
K1 Lacan
K1 Other
K1 Psychoanalysis
DO 10.1007/s11841-017-0626-5