Reflecting “Psyche”: A Protocol for Colonial Readers
Near the end of Jean-Luc Nancy's Birth to Presence, Psyche is nearly inhumed in a coffin that the French philosopher leaves slightly open. This one-page scene retraces how an imagined colonial tradition can reduce Psyche to soul, Eros's lover, Aristotle's principle of animal life, and Freud's psychical apparatus. Asp...