Nothing to It

Thespecial role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenologyThe confrontation between philosophy andpsychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between PaulRicoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and MichelHenry, 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 (DePaul University), William L. Connelly(The Catholic University of Paris)This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).