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Psychoanalysis - Is There a Transgression?

Derrida is adamant that what he's looking at is a fundamental structure. He does this performative thing at the end of that essay where it's impossible to know who's talking. It's almost like – somewhere in Absalom, Absalom there's a parenthetical that I'm not even sure ever gets closed. Or there's one that it takes like 20 pages and the parenthetical gets closed and it picks up the beginning of that sentence that it was a part of. There's like that going on too. But anyway, but that's just the basic point if you haven't read it or you've been lost in Derrida before is that like – this is

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