Treating Life Literally |
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| Authors: | Adam Sitze |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought, Amherst College, PO Box 5000, Amherst, MA 01002-5000, USA |
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| Abstract: | This essay is a study of three texts written by the psychoanalyst Wulf Sachs. These texts hold an important lesson about the
psychoanalytic turn in jurisprudence. Their attempt to extend psychoanalysis’s frontiers to fight the legalization of racism
in pre-apartheid South Africa recoils upon itself, stripping self-evidence from the singular constellation of law, life, language,
and sovereignty psychoanalysis derives from ancient and modern tragedy and formalizes into a discipline. Even as Sachs’s trilogy
turns to psychoanalysis to critique the legalization of racism, it also points to the limits of psychoanalysis itself as a
paradigm for the study of law.
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| Keywords: | anthropology biography legal fiction magic psychoanalysis sovereign power Wulf Sachs |
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