Unhoming Pigeons: The Postal Principle in Lynn Hershman Leeson and Hussein Chalayan.
In this article I bring together Jacques Derrida and Luce Irigaray's engagements with Sigmund Freud's vexed attempt to step beyond the pleasure principle. Derrida's speculations on the name, the house and the practice of Freud find him inadvertently rewriting the conditions of the autobiographical a...
| Publicado en: | Derrida Today Vol. 5; no. 1; pp. 92 - 111 |
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Edinburgh University Press
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