On Derrida: “We really brought the plague”

René Girard on bringing Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida to the USA in 1966: “When Freud came to the USA, he said, as he approached New York: ‘I’m bringing the plague to them’; but he was wrong. Americans digested and Americanized psychoanalysis easily and quickly. But in 1966 we really brought the plague with Lacan […]

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