Skip to main navigation menu Skip to main content Skip to site footer
Logo Thémata

RESEARCH PAPERS

No. 65

Parricide and Law in Derrida’s Work

DOI
https://doi.org/10.12795/themata.2022.i65.12
Submitted
August 18, 2021
Published
2022-07-11
Versions

Abstract

In this paper we explore the way in which the scene of parricide in Totem and Taboo has influenced Derrida’s understanding of the origin and preservation of the Law. We refer first to his essay “Préjugés”, in which Derrida studies parricide as an event which takes place and doesn’t take place at the same time, making possible a founding of the Law upon a fiction and a simulacrum. Then, we turn towards the Seminar on the Death Penalty, where Derrida identifies the Father and the death row prisoner, and studies the way in which the repetition of execution (especially the sovereign’s execution) constitutes the Law.

References

  1. Anidjar, Gil (2017), “Weapons (Inscription, Destruction, Deconstruction)”, en Political Theology, vol. 19, nº 2, pp. 95-104.
  2. Baumeister, David (2017), “Derrida on Carnopahllogocentrism and the Primal Parricide”, en Derrida Today, vol 10, nº 1, pp. 51-66.
  3. Bennington, Geoffrey (2012), “Rigor; or, Stupid Uselessness”, en The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, Spindel Supplement.
  4. Bielik-Robson, Agata (2018), “Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and the Right to Live in Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminar”, en Political Theology, vol. 19, nº 2, pp. 79-94.
  5. Derrida, Jacques (1985), La voz y el fenómeno [trad. Peñalver], Valencia, Pre-Textos.
  6. Derrida, Jacques (2008a), El animal que luego estoy si(gui)endo [trads. Peretti y Marciel], Madrid, Trotta.
  7. Derrida, Jacques (2008b), Fuerza de ley [trads. Barberá y Gómez], Madrid, Tecnos.
  8. Derrida, Jacques (2010), La bestia y el soberano [trads. Peretti y Rocha], Buenos Aires, Manantial.
  9. Derrida, Jacques (2011), Prejuzgados – Ante la ley [trads. Massó y Rampérez], Avarigani.
  10. Derrida, Jacques (2012), Séminaire La peine de mort I [eds. Bennington, Crépon y Dutoit], París: Éditions Galilée.
  11. Derrida, Jacques (2015), Séminaire La peine de mort II [eds. Bennington y Crépon], París: Éditions Galilée.
  12. Dutoit, Thomas (2012), “Kant’s Retreat, Hugo’s Advance, Freud’s Erection; or, Derrida’s Displacements in his Death Penalty Lectures”, en The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, Spindel Supplement.
  13. Freud, Sigmund (1991), Obras completas, vol XIII, Buenos Aires, Amorrortu.
  14. Fritsch, Matthias (2012), “Derrida on the Death Penalty”, en The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 50, Spindel Supplement.
  15. Fulton, Gwynne (2015), “Phantasmatics : Sovereignty and the Image of Death in Derrida’s First Death Penalty Seminar”, en Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, vol. 48, nº 3, pp. 75-94.
  16. Gustafson, Ryan (2017), “Abolition, Phallocentrism, and the Mondialisation of Psychoanalysis: A Review of Derrida’s Psychoanalytic Argument in The Death Penalty: Volume II”, en The Undecidable Unconscious: A Journal of Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis, Vol. 4, pp. 129-140.
  17. Kant, Immanuel (2008), Metafísica de las costumbres [trad. Orts y Sancho], Madrid, Tecnos.
  18. Kant, Immanuel (2020), El conflicto de las facultades [trad. Aramayo], Alianza Editorial.
  19. Naas, Michael (2008), Derrida from now on, Nueva York, Fordham University Press.
  20. Naas, Michael (2018), “Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty”, en Oliver y Straub (eds.), Deconstructing the Death Penalty, Nueva York, Fordham University Press.
  21. Thurschwell (2018), “Furman and Finitude”, en Oliver y Straub (eds.), Deconstructing the Death Penalty, Nueva York, Fordham University Press.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Most read articles by the same author(s)