Nothing to It

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"Nothing to It" was written by Emmanuel Falque. Emmanuel Falque is honorary dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. He is a widely published author in the field of phenomenology and continental philosophy.

Reading Freud as a Philosopher

Emmanuel Falque (Author),

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Series: Figures of the Unconscious

Category: Psychoanalysis

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ISBN: 9789462702233

Publication date: February 12, 2020

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Series: Figures of the Unconscious

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DOI: 10.11116/9789461663214

ISBN: 9789461663214

Publication date: February 12, 2020

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The special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenology

The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an ‘excess of meaning’, and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions. This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say ‘Nothing to It’ indicates that the ‘It’—or Freudian Id—is not visible as it never shows itself as a ‘phenomenon’. Such a reading of Freud exemplifies how psychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology’s development.

Translators: Robert Vallier (DePaul University), William L. Connelly (The Catholic University of Paris)

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Foreword by Philippe Van Haute
Preface
Opening Act Philosophizing in psychoanalysis The doctrine of experience The other Rubicon The backlash
Introduction Go take a look
Chapter One Keep moving, nothing to see The end of the Enlightenment Toward another paradigm Collapse of the system
Chapter Two Beware of it Conceiving the inconceivable The disillusion of psychoanalysis Primitive man
Chapter Three It’s not nothing The drive at the frontier Rooting in the organic Presence and resistance
Chapter Four What is it? A disturbing uncanny Death and repetition The anorganic
Chapter Five It concerns me Being lived The knight of the Id Being there for something
Chapter Six It touches me Where the Id was The draining of the Zuyderzee The great cavalcade
Conclusion What’s God have to do with it? For the salvation of the Id Apart from it The realm of the Id
Epilogue Regarding all of it
Notes Bibliography Index rerum Index nominum

Emmanuel Falque

Emmanuel Falque is honorary dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. He is a widely published author in the field of phenomenology and continental philosophy.

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The special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenology

Translators: Robert Vallier (DePaul University), William L. Connelly (The Catholic University of Paris)

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Who wrote "Nothing to It"?

"Nothing to It" was written by Emmanuel Falque.

Emmanuel Falque is honorary dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Catholic University of Paris. He is a widely published author in the field of phenomenology and continental philosophy.

Is "Nothing to It" part of a series?

Yes, "Nothing to It" is part of the "Figures of the Unconscious" series.

In collaboration with the International Society for Psychoanalysis and Philosophy (SIPP-ISPP).

The peer-reviewed book series Figures of the Unconscious was founded in 2001 and provides a platform for exchange at the intersection of philosophy and psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis occupies a crucial position within contemporary philosophical thinking and many analysts are influenced by philosophical approaches.

Both philosophy and psychoanalysis are concerned with the nature of the subject, questions of knowledge and epistemology, sexuality, life and death, ethical issues, alterity, and the subject’s manifold relationships to the other - to other human and non-human beings and to its environment.

We welcome manuscripts in the areas and at the intersections of

the history of psychoanalysis and Freudian thought
the exploration of psychoanalytic concepts and the development of theories
the research and development of the psychoanalytic movement
psychoanalytic and philosophical concepts and ideas
psychoanalysis, gender and queer studies
interdisciplinary approaches that combine psychoanalysis with other scientific disciplines
current developments in psychoanalytic approaches
ethical approaches in psychoanalysis
epistemological debates

Editors-in-Chief

Beatriz Santos (Université de Paris)
Herman Westerink (Radboud University)
Esther Hutfless (Sigmund Freud University Linz)

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Daniela Finzi (Freud Museum Vienna)
Jeff Bloechl (Boston College)

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Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck College, London)
Jozef Corveleyn (KU Leuven)
Monique David-Ménard (Université de Paris)
Rodrigo De La Fabián (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile)
Jens De Vleminck (Leuven)
Eran Dorfman (University of Tel Aviv)
Laurie Laufer (Université de Paris)
Elissa Marder (Emory University, Atlanta)
Claire Nioche (Université Paris XIII)
Vladimir Safatle (Universidade de São Paulo)
Charles Shepherdson (State University of New York at Albany)
Guillaume Silbertin Blanc (Université Paris 8)
Raluca Soreanu (University of Essex)
Celine Surprenant (Paris)
Antônio Teixeira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Johan Van Der Walt (University of Luxemburg)
Wilfried Ver Eecke (Georgetown University)

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