Taking Chances: Derrida, Psychoanalysis, and Literature

by Joseph H. Smith MD, William Kerrigan

Overview

A challenging and multisided meditation on the importance of Derrida to current developments in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical interpretations of literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780801837494
Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date:	08/01/1988
Series:	Psychiatry and the Humanities
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.48(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Joseph H. Smith, M.D., is supervising and training analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute and president of the Washington Psychoanalytic Society. He is editor of Psychoanalysis and Religion. William Kerrigan is a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His books include The Idea of the Renaissance, written with Gordon Braden, and Hamlet's Perfection, both available from Johns Hopkins.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. My Chances/Mes Chances: A Rendezvous with Some Epicurean Stereophonies
Chapter 2. The Debts of Deconstruction and Other, Related Assumptions
Chapter 3. The Double Game: An Introduction
Chapter 4. Atoms Again: The Deaths of Individualism
Chapter 5. Institutional Authority vs. Critical Power, or the Uneasy Relations of Psychoanalysis and Literature
Chapter 6. Thomas Hardy, Jacques Derrida, and the "Dislocation of Souls"
Chapter 7. Goethezeit
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Through its engagement with literary, philosophical, and psychoanalytical texts, Taking Chances introduces a critical vocabulary... with which to analyze questions of influence in a theoretical way."

Philosophy and Literature