Psychoanalysis

Abstract

In these two brief papers written at different times, the author comes back to examining the problems of truth in psychoanalysis and of its greatest invention. By using his proper method, Nancy demonstrates that psychoanalysis has little to do with healing: it rather unveils an entirely new world, the alterity which is older than the Other and more fundamental than the Law. Freud invented psychoanalysis as a narrative, an endless narrative which, while involving the entire man in the game, gives an account of the man’s origin and growth, owing to the initial ‘push’ which a man receives while entering the world and which continues to operate in him and, in many respects, to prevail over him.