A psychoanalytic reading of Rogues? On the autoimmunitary problem of democratic sovereignty

Authors

  • Cristóbal Olivares Molina Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Abstract

It is propose the possibility of a psychoanalytic reading of Derrida’s Rogues. It is try to show that the autoimmune condition of democratic sovereignty, the aporetic condition that affirms and denies it at once, can be reconsidered from psychoanalysis, as well as from the interpretation that Derrida himself has made of concepts like death drive, detour and repetition compulsión in The Post Card. However, it seems possible to extend this rereading of the autoimmune problem to certain problems associated to Lacan. Ultimately, a Lacanian contribution it would be posible to the ethico-political problem of autoimmunity of democratic sovereignty raised by Derrida.

Keywords:

Derrida, Freud, Lacan, democracy, autoinmunity, detour, death drive, repetition compulsion, Umweg, détour