Marcus Coelen – Psychoanalyst in Berlin and Paris; researcher affiliated with the University of Munich; editor and translator into German of Maurice Blanchot. “I would like to speak about “radical philology” in Freud. What I mean by this term is not so much the academic and institutional disciplines Freud admired and drew on, at times heavily (see e.g. the study on “The Uncanny”, “The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words” or sections in “Totem and Taboo” or “The Man Moses”). It is, more importantly, a way of being affected by language itself, more precisely, in this ʻbeing affected by languageʼ what creates the contradictory necessities to stay attached, as closely a possible to the concreteness of the letter, but also to metamorphize i...Read More