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Notice that in this sense, psychoanalysis is a sister of philosophy if, “once philosophy declares and “performs” or demonstrates itself to be responsible and absolutely responsible, it commits itself to sense and thus to a sense that is still to come, to sense’s future, rather than merely describing or delivering sense as if it were already in place” (Nancy 2003, p. 293).
Again here psychoanalysis meets philosophy, as in both positions, “it’s not that I grant sense because I already possess it. It’s not that I draw on a secure reserve of sense that I simply then transmit. Rather, I promise, I anticipate a sense that is not yet there and will, in fact, never be there as something completed and presentable, a sense that is always in and according to the other, making sense only by being exposed to the other, to the risk of not making sense, to the always certain risk of changing the sense of the other and so of always being other, always being altered, always being outside, being by itself, as sense, a being infinitely-for-of-the-other” (Nancy 2003, p. 295)
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Legrand, D. Review of Wisdom won from Illness, Essays in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Jonathan Lear, Havard University press, 2017. Phenom Cogn Sci 18, 621–625 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-018-9588-5
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