Studies in Hysteria

Of Hospitality: Anne Dufourmantelle Invites Jacques Derrida to Respond

These two lectures by Jacques Derrida, "Foreigner Question" and "Step of Hospitality/No Hospitality," derive from a series of seminars on "hospitality" conducted by Derrida in Paris, January 1996. His seminars, in France and in America, have become someth

Paper Machine

This book questions the book itself, archivization, machines for writing, and the mechanicity inherent in language, the media, and intellectuals. Derrida questions what takes place between the paper and the machine inscribing it. He examines what becomes

Nation and Narration

Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the

Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question

"I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. I

The Inhuman: Reflections on Time

Jean-François Lyotard is one of Europe's leading philosophers, well known for his work The Postmodern Condition. In this important new study he develops his analysis of the phenomenon of postmodernity.In a wide-ranging discussion the author examines the

Civilization, Society and Religions: Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego/Future of an Illusion/Civilization and Its Discontents

This volume contains:'Civilized' sexual morality and modern nervous illnesses (1908) --Thoughts for the times on war and death (1915) --Group psychology and the analysis of the ego (1912) --The future of an illusion (1927) --Civilization and its disconten

Three Case Histories

Notes upon a case of obessional neurosis (1909)Pscyhoanalytic notes upon an autobiographical account of a case of paranoia (dementia paranoides) (1911)From the history of an infantile neurosis (1918)

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Dreams, in Freud's view, are all forms of "wish fulfillment" — attempts by the unconscious to resolve a conflict of some sort, whether something recent or something from the recesses of the past (later in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Freud would discu

Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis

Στα τέλη του 19ου και στις αρχές του 20ού αιώνα, ο Αυστριακός Σίγκμουντ Φρόυντ, φυσιολόγος και ψυχίατρος, έθεσε με τις μελέτες του τις βάσεις τ