Falque Emmanuel Falque 
Nothing to It [PDF ebook] 
Reading Freud as a Philosopher

Thespecial role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenology The confrontation between philosophy andpsychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessaryand gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and thedegree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point ofview. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an excess of meaning , and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions. This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say Nothing to It indicates that the It or Freudian Id is not visible as itnever shows itself as a phenomenon . Such a reading of Freud exemplifies howpsychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology’s development.Translators: Robert Vallier (De Paul University), William L. Connelly(The Catholic University of Paris)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).