For the Love of Lacan

Authors

Jacques Derrida

Abstract

What wouldn't Lacan have said!

What won't he have said!

This is not a question, it is an exclamation: to get my voice right, to find the appropriate tone, before beginning to try out this idiomatic conjunction of negation, denial [denegation], conditional and future in the past, my hypothesis being that these grammars, now in succession, now simultaneously, play the role of a screen and of a mirror in the modalities of the with, as they do in the modalities of the since [depuis] that will have determined Lacan's relationship to the philosophers-to certain philosophers. These few reflections on temporal modalities will thus bear the imprint marked by the effects of what Stephen Melville has just said about "narration," and therefore about history [l'histoire], "temporal shifts," and also about the possibility of a Kehre, of a "turning" in Lacan after the Ecrits-that is, more precisely, since 1966-1967.

Keywords

Ethics, Jurisprudence, Psychiatry and Psychology, Sovereignty, Government

Disciplines

Jurisprudence | Law | Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility

Recommended Citation

Jacques Derrida, For the Love of Lacan, 16 Cardozo L. Rev. 699 (1995).
Available at: https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol16/iss3/2