Sacrifice 1

Derrida essay by Walt

"The transformation to come of ethics, law and politics, writes Derrida, would have to take into account psychoanalytical knowledge (le savoir psychoanalytique). And the community of psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts (la communauté psychoanalytique) would have to take into account history, notably the history of law, the recent performative mutations of which it has not shown any interest in. Law and politics constitute a psychoanalytical problem and psychoanalysis has or is a political responsibility. At the heart of this problem and this responsibility lies an irreducible and ageless cruelty, a cruelty as old as if not older than man – une cruauté sans âge, aussi vieille et sans doute plus vieille que l'homme. What remains to be thought psychoanalytically are the mutation and novel historical manifestations of this ageless cruelty." 

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