Experiences of otherness. The phantasmic and the poetic in Derrida
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14409/tb.2021.14.e0047Keywords:
Jacques Derrida, logos, figure, experiences of otherness, poetry, phantasmAbstract
According to Derrida, both in the phantasmatic and in poetry the same experience of otherness, of the other, of the unknown and of what is beyond humans, is made. This paper seeks to delve into this statement by analyzing, on the one hand, the phantasmatic satisfaction of the power drive, from the Derridian reading of psychoanalysis, as the condition for the possibility of sovereignty, and, on the other hand, poetry, from the conception of Celanian poetics that Derrida takes up in The Beast and the Sovereign