{"product_id":"the-post-card-from-socrates-to-freud-and-beyond-9780226143224","title":"The Post Card: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond","description":"\u003cp\u003e17 November 1979  You were reading a somewhat retro loveletter  the last in history. But you have not yet received it. Yes  its lack or excess of address prepares it to fall into all hands: a post card  an open letter in which the secret appears  but indecipherably.  What does a post card want to say to you? On what conditions is it possible? Its destination traverses you  you no longer know who you are. At the very instant when from its address it interpellates  you  uniquely you  instead of reaching you it divides you or sets you aside  occasionally overlooks you. And you love and you do not love  it makes of you what you wish  it takes you  it leaves you  it gives you.  On the other side of the card  look  a proposition is made to you  S and p  Socrates and plato. For once the former seems to write  and with his other hand he is even scratching. But what is Plato doing with his outstretched finger in his back? While you occupy yourself with turning it around in every direction  it is the picture that turns you around like a letter  in advance it deciphers you  it preoccupies space  it procures your words and gestures  all the bodies that you believe you invent in order to determine its outline. You find yourself  you  yourself  on its path.  The thick support of the card  a book heavy and light  is also the specter of this scene  the analysis between Socrates and Plato  on the program of several others. Like the soothsayer  a \"fortune-telling book\" watches over and speculates on that-which-must-happen  on what it indeed might mean to happen  to arrive  to have to happen or arrive  to let or to make happen or arrive  to destine  to address  to send  to legate  to inherit  etc.  if it all still signifies  between here and there  the near and the far  da und fort  the one or the other.  You situate the subject of the book: between the posts and the analytic movement  the pleasure principle and the history of telecommunications  the post card and the purloined letter  in a word the transference from Socrates to Freud  and beyond. This satire of epistolary literature had to be farci  stuffed with addresses  postal codes  crypted missives  anonymous letters  all of it confided to so many modes  genres  and tones. In it I also abuse dates  signatures  titles or references  language itself.  J. D.  \"With The Post Card  as with Glas  Derrida appears more as writer than as philosopher. Or we could say that here  in what is in part a mock epistolary novel (the long section is called \"Envois \" roughly  \"dispatches\" )  he stages his writing more overtly than in the scholarly works. . . . The Post Card also contains a series of self-reflective essays  largely focused on Freud  in which Derrida is beautifully lucid and direct.\"Alexander Gelley  Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45648175431733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226143228","price":40.04,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226143224.jpg?v=1781711699","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-post-card-from-socrates-to-freud-and-beyond-9780226143224","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}