Derrida's work is sustained by faith in language, in the language of the unconscious and the linguistic impossibility of saying what is true. Freudian concepts thus find a form of echo that Derrida uses as the theme of his work. It is not a question of writing whether or not it confirms Freudian meanings, because Derrida does not produce psychoanalytic material, but Freudian meanings find a form of truth in his work as a whole. Derrida's relationship with psychoanalysis is a relationship of language. A language that precedes philosophical linguistics. A language that would not be truncated by the convention of words whose absence in the Thing would insert ambiguity, the loss of a form of truth in existence. In short, the anguish of not telling the epistemological truth. It seems, then, that Derrida grasped psychoanalysis in order to produce a philosophy as close as possible to the hum...read more
