Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: From language to writing: the interdisciplinary matrix
- 1 The passion of inscription (‘Force et signification’)
- 2 Infinity, inscription, the economy
- 3 Beyond the seen of writing (‘Freud et la scène de l'écriture’)
- 4 The element of play (écart, entame, [en]taille, articulation/double bande, tomber)
- 5 Evolution and the ‘life’ sciences
- Conclusion Metaphor and more than metaphor
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Subject index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN FRENCH
3 - Beyond the seen of writing (‘Freud et la scène de l'écriture’)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction: From language to writing: the interdisciplinary matrix
- 1 The passion of inscription (‘Force et signification’)
- 2 Infinity, inscription, the economy
- 3 Beyond the seen of writing (‘Freud et la scène de l'écriture’)
- 4 The element of play (écart, entame, [en]taille, articulation/double bande, tomber)
- 5 Evolution and the ‘life’ sciences
- Conclusion Metaphor and more than metaphor
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index of names
- Subject index
- CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN FRENCH
Summary
L'image graphique n'est pas vue; et l'image acoustique n'est pas entendue. La différence entre les unités pleines de la voix reste inouïe. Invisible aussi la différence dans le corps de l'inscription.
(GRi, p. 95)(The graphic image is not seen; and the acoustic image is not heard. The difference between the full unities of the voice remains unheard. And, the difference in the body of the inscription is also invisible.)
(GR2, p. 65)After all, the simplest cybernetic circuit can be said to have a memory of a dynamic nature – not based on static storage but upon the travel of information around the circuit.
The text of ‘Freud et la scène de l'écriture’ is the transcript of part of a lecture given by Derrida at the Institut de psychanalyse in Paris in March 1966. In consequence, the text is preceded and concluded by two explanatory notes summarizing the first and final parts of the lecture which do not figure in the chapter itself. Derrida's stated intention in ‘La scène de l'écriture’ is to follow the metaphor of writing as it is increasingly adopted by Freud in his descriptions of the psychical apparatus from his earliest works onwards, from the Project for a Scientific Psychology (1895) to ‘A Note upon the “Mystic Writing-Pad”’ (1925).
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- System and Writing in the Philosophy of Jacques Derrida , pp. 65 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993
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