Language’s unconscious houses contradictory meanings it never renounces yet remains indifferent to time.

Evidence

I wonder what is the scene of this exile or of this slumber. I wonder where is to be found, to take up your expression, this ‘leave’. In what sense has the double meaning of ‘to see (what is) coming’been banished, retreated or taken its leave? Which is the scene of this goodbye to which, without ever having said farewell, we are now returning? Would it not be some sort of unconscious? Would it not be some sort of cunning performed by the unconscious (here understood as the unconscious proper to language) of which Freud said both that it renounces nothing and that we must reckon with it when we attempt to interpret the ‘contradictory meanings’ of the celebrated ‘primal words’? An unconscious about which he even said, rightfully so or not, that it remains indifferent both to logical contradiction and to temporality? — Catherine Malabou, The Future of Hegel, 49

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s MOC thread: what conditions keep a concept’s contradictory senses dormant (like ‘voir venir’ or the enemy) and what causes them to surface — an unconscious-of-language mechanism for the receptivity-to-explosion shift.
• QUESTION: Derrida only gestures at ‘the unconscious proper to language’ — a structural account of where and why a word’s opposite sense goes dormant would supply the missing institutional mechanism the reader hunts.
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source