I WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK TO A THEME THAT I HAVE ALREADY TREATED in Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences, that is, to Derrida’s definition of a drive for power at the end of To Speculate-On Freud, a text that comes from the seminar La vie la mort, given in 1975-76 and published, finally, in April 2019. My first aim is to make more clear the distance that Derrida takes from Freud, in particular from Freud’s hypothesis of the death drive as the irreducible mover of the living beings and consequently of the psychic life, and more precisely about what, according to Freud, follows from this hypothesis—that is, an original cruelty that would condition the human life, individual and collective. On the way, I’m going to return to my reading of To Speculate-On Freud, by deepening it, at least in some passages that now, according to this particular perspective, seem to me to be unsatisfactory
On the Other Side of the Drive for Power
FRANCESCO VITALE
2020-01-01
Abstract
I WOULD LIKE TO COME BACK TO A THEME THAT I HAVE ALREADY TREATED in Biodeconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the Life Sciences, that is, to Derrida’s definition of a drive for power at the end of To Speculate-On Freud, a text that comes from the seminar La vie la mort, given in 1975-76 and published, finally, in April 2019. My first aim is to make more clear the distance that Derrida takes from Freud, in particular from Freud’s hypothesis of the death drive as the irreducible mover of the living beings and consequently of the psychic life, and more precisely about what, according to Freud, follows from this hypothesis—that is, an original cruelty that would condition the human life, individual and collective. On the way, I’m going to return to my reading of To Speculate-On Freud, by deepening it, at least in some passages that now, according to this particular perspective, seem to me to be unsatisfactoryI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
