W drodze do psychoanalizy z Jacques’em Derridą
Towards Psychoanalysis with Jacques Derrida

Summary/Abstract: Reconstructing Derrida’s writing, Kobylińska-Dehe explores (1) the possibility of psychoanalytical thought outside of clinical psychoanalysis, (2) the processes of speech and writing and (3) the mutual influence of psychoanalysis and the humanities. She demonstrates that Derrida, surprisingly, moves along the line marked by Freud. All the works by Derrida that were inspired by psychoanalysis can be read as a response to books by Freud. A shared moment of psychoanalysis and deconstruction is to posit such a reading (speaking) using minimally invasive tools to that the text (patient) may begin to speak by themselves and tell us something other than they intended to say. If we can speak of a method at all in Derrida’s case, then this method is copying, which moves along the hidden logic of the text, just as psychoanalysis moves along the patient’s psychodynamics. Derrida extract’s Freud’s “signature” from his works: the inexorable antinomy between description and performativity. If the humanities want to understand their subject, they must engage in it personally, at the same time respecting the principles of scientific discourse.

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