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Alan Bass - Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care - 9780804753388 - V9780804753388
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Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care

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Description for Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care Paperback. This book synthesizes Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida on interpretation and difference in order to provide a new theory of how interpretation functions in psychoanalysis. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 295.

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.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804753388
SKU
V9780804753388
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99-50

About Alan Bass
Alan Bass is a practicing psychoanalyst in New York City. He is author of Difference and Disavowal: The Trauma of Eros (Stanford University Press, 2000), and the translator of Jacques Derrida's Writing and Difference (1980), Positions (1982), Margins: Of Philosophy (1984), and The Post Card (1987).

Reviews for Interpretation and Difference: The Strangeness of Care
"This work opens up and defines an area of research that until now has been only present latently. Bass situates Freud and psychoanalytic interpretation in proximity to Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida. The result is original and groundbreaking and should be of interest to a wide swath of readers–philosophers, critical theorists of all disciplines, and thoughtful psychoanalysts."
Donald Moss, M.D.
New York University Psychoanalytic Institute
"This book is a striking philosophical interrogation of the practivce of psychoanalysis...I am convinced that Bass has opened up some new possibilities for further critical dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis."
Philosophy in Review/Comptes Rendus Philosophiques

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