Derrida’s geopolitics of cruelty ignores the psychic change it entails

Evidence

Such analyses are certainly incontestable, but it remains surprising that the notion of traumatic event is never recalled to its primary meaning as psychic wound. Derrida thematizes geopolitical changes in cruelty without ever envisaging psychic change or, more precisely, the change of psyche—that is, the unconscious—that corresponds to it. — Catherine Malabou, The New Wounded, 4250

Categorization

• XREF: This is Malabou’s core critique positioning her brain-damage/‘destructive plasticity’ project against Derridean deconstruction — connects to her larger argument about psychoanalysis’ neurological blind spot threaded through the book. — connects to: Recognizing geopolitics changes the meaning of our actions can shatter one’s sense of existence — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 493; Ideological logic coerces the mind as violently as outside power does — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1065

Broader Connections

• Recognizing geopolitics changes the meaning of our actions can shatter one’s sense of existence #expands (0.88) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 493
• Ideological logic coerces the mind as violently as outside power does #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1065