Psyche, Volume 1: Inventions of the Other

Psyche: Inventions of the Other is the first publication in English of the twenty-eight essay collection Jacques Derrida published in two volumes in 1998 and 2003. In Volume I, Derrida advances his reflection on many topics: psychoanalysis, theater, translation, literature, representation, racism, and nuclear war, among others. The essays in this volume also carry on Derrida's engagement with a number of key thinkers and writers: Barthes, Benjamin, de Man, Flaubert, Freud, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, Levinas, and Ponge. Included in this volume are new or revised translations of seminal essays (for example, Psyche: Invention of the Other, The Retrait of Metaphor, At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am, Tours de Babel and Racism's Last Word), as well as three essays that appear here in English for the first time.