Without Alibi Jacques Derrida M E R I D I A N Crossing Aesthetics Werner Hamacher Editor Edited, Translated, and with an Introduction by Peggy Kamuf Stanford University Press Stanford, California 2002 "PsychoanSaelayrscithshe Sest atoefIs t Sso ulw"a so riginally publisihnFe rde nicnh20 00 undetrh te itEltaets dame de fa psychanalyse byE ditiGoanlsi l©e 2e0.00 byE ditiGoanlsi lee. StanfUonridv erPsrietsys StanfoCradl,i fornia © 2002 byt heB oarodfT rustoefte hse LelaSntda nfJourndi Uonri versity Printientd h eU nitSetda toefAs m erica, ona cid-farreceh,i val-pqaupaelri ty ISBN 0-8047-4410-6 (alpka.p e-r) ISBN 0-8047-44II-4 (pbk:a. l kp.a per) OrigiPnrailn t2i00n2g Lasfitg urbee loiwn dicyaetaeorsft hipsr inting: II 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 TypesbeyBt o okMattiennr lls3 AdobGea ramond Acknowledgments Earlier versions of "History of the Lie" appeared in Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, New School for Social Research, vol. 19, 2-VOL 20, I, and Futures of Jacques Derrida, ed. Richard Rand (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001). "Typewriter Ribbon" appeared initially in Material Events: Paul de Man and the Afterlife of Theory, ed. Barbara Cohen et al. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), and appears here with the permission of the publisher. "Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul" is a translation of Etats d'ame de fa psychanalyse (Paris: Galilee, 2000). Vlt Contents Preface: Toward the Event Xl PEGGY KAMUF Provocation: Forewords xv JACQUES DERRIDA Introduction: Event of Resistance I PEGGY KAMUF I. History of the Lie: Prolegomena 28 2. Typewriter Ribbon: Limited Ink (2) 7I 3· "Le Parjure," Perhaps: Storytelling and Lying I61 4· The University Without Condition 202 5· Psychoanalysis Searches the States of Its Soul: The Impossible Beyond of a Sovereign Cruelty 238 Notes 281