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Departures: The A merican Future of Psychoanalysis
Author(s) -
McQuillan Martin
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the southern journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 2041-6962
pISSN - 0038-4283
DOI - 10.1111/sjp.12025
Subject(s) - cruelty , psychoanalysis , soul , performative utterance , section (typography) , philosophy , sociology , criminology , psychology , epistemology , advertising , business
Taking D errida's essay “Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul: the Impossible Beyond of a Sovereign Cruelty” as my point of departure I would like to discuss three exemplary moments in the performative history of psychoanalysis in A merica: F reud's 1909 “Introductory Lectures to Psychoanalysis” at C lark University, L acan's visit to the Y ale School in 1975, and D errida's fictionalization of his travel to A merica in the “Envois” section of The Post Card . Throughout, I would like to keep at the forefront of our minds the question of cruelty and the unique and unusual place that cruelty plays in both A merican culture and the history of psychoanalysis in A merica.