Derrida, Jaques [1997 (1967)]: Of Grammatology
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((322)) close to Derrida’s vocabulary. But in fact that thought rests on a set of hierarchized oppositions, is defined always as anterior rather than posterior, pre- rather than post-verbal, pre- rather than postfigurative. It is an ambitious and valuable book, but it does not articulate or perform the “sous rature.” It is not surprising, then, that Kristeva uses her long-standing dyad—the génotexte and the phénotexte—when she reads individual poems, reverting to the recognizable scientistic structuralist idiom, closing the book with a confidently compartmentalized “Synoptic Table” arranged under “Lautréamont,” “Mallarmé,” “Political Events and the Social Situation,” “Scientific Events-Discoveries,” and “French Colonialist Expansion”—material for those general laws that differance would not countenance. 70.Paris, 1961; Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, tr. Richard Howard, Plume Book edition (New York, Toronto, and London, 1971). 71.Ibid., p. ii, xi. 72.Ibid.
73. An early and vitriolic expression of this is to be found in “La chose freudienne,” Ecrits (Paris, 1966) : 401–36 (hereafter cited in the text as Ec) . 74.Scilicet I (Paris, 1968), (hereafter cited in the text as Sc), p. 47. 75.For example, Lacan’s “delightful play of homonyms” (Pos F 115, Pos E II 43) in “La chose freudienne” (Ec, pp. 420–23) is discounted by Derrida as an ellipse that allows Lacan to escape responsibility! 76.Les Séminaires de Jacques Lacan, Livre XI, Les Quatre concepts fondamentaux de la
77.Ibid., p. 137. 78.This paper was presented at the johns Hopkins University as early as 1966. Later Derrida will come to distrust such terms as “the totality of an era.” 79.Jeffrey Mehlman relates this project—the desire that word be one with meaning—with Narcissus’s desire to be one with his image, and with the child’s narcissistic desire to be one with the mother in his Structural Study of Autobiography: Proust, Leiris, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss (Ithaca, London, 1974). I am indebted to Michael Ryan for an illuminating discussion of the relationship between such a narcissism and Derrida’s project of “unbalancing” the equation. In “La dissémination” (Dis pp. 322–407), Derrida presents the structure of the square with an open (yet presupposed) fourth side—Ryan relates this to the forever active triangularity of the oedipal position, which intervenes to resolve the unfulfilled narcissistic desire for self- enclosure (review forthcoming, in Diacritics, of Mehlman’s book.) For a somewhat restricted yet interesting discussion of Derrida’s tetrapolarity (logic of the open square, rather than the Hegelian triplicity or circularity, and rather than the longed-for narcissistic self-enclosed dyad) see Robert Greer Cohn, “Nodes,” I, Diacritics 4, i (Spring 1974) : 39. 80.See J. Hillis Miller, “The Geneva School: the Criticism of Marcel Raymond, Albert Béguin, Georges Poulet, Jean Rousset, Jean-Pierre Richard, and Jean Starobinski,” Modern French Criticism: From Proust and Valéry to Structuralism, ed. John K. Simon (Chicago and London, 1972), pp. 277–310. For descriptions specifically of Maurice Blanchot and Georges Poulet, see de Man, “Impersonality in the Criticism of Maurice Blanchot,” “The Literary Self as Origin: the Work of Georges Poulet,” Blindness and Insight, op. cit., pp. 6o-78, 79–101. Paul Ricoeur’s Le Conflit des interprétations: essais d’herméneutique (Paris, 1969) (The
of particular interest to readers of this book, since Ricoeur delivers hermeneutic interpretations of several texts that Derrida deconstructs. A most influential German text on hermeneutics is Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Wahrheit und Methode: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik, second edition (Tübingen, 1965), English translation forthcoming from Seabury Press, New York. 81.Derrida refers to Gregory Bateson’s theory of schizophrenia. See, for example, “Toward a Theory of Schizophrenia,” and “Double Bind, 1969,” Steps to an Ecology of Mind, Ballantine Books edition (New York, 1972), pp. 201–27, 271–78. 82.Critique, 223 (December 1965) : 1017–42 (hereafter cited in the text as Crit I); and 224 (January 1966) : 23–53 (hereafter cited in the text as Crit II) . ((323))
83.“Die endliche and unendliche Analyse,“ GW XVI: 59—99; SE XXIII: 209—53. 84.For a cogent discussion of the problems relating to these two words as used by Derrida, see “White Mythology” 5. 85.For a cogent discussion of translation and intertextuality, see Jeffrey Mehlman, “Portnoy in Paris,” Diacritics 2, iv (Winter 1972) : 21.
1. It may be read as an essay published in the review Critique (December 1965—January 1966) . Three important publications provided me the opportunity: Madeleine V.-David, Le
Gourhan, Le geste et la parole (1965) (GP) ; L’écriture et la psychologie des peuples (Proceedings of a Colloquium, 1963) (EP) .
1.Cf. for example, the notions of « secondary elaboration » or « symbolism of second intention » in Edmond Ortigues, Le discours et le symbole (Aubier, 1962) pp. 62 and 171. “Mathematical symbolism is a convention of writing, a scriptural symbolism. It is only by an abuse of vocabulary or by analogy that one speaks of a ‘mathematical language.’ Algorithm is actually a ‘characteristics,’ it is composed of written characters. It does not speak, except Yüklə 2,36 Mb. Dostları ilə paylaş:
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