Sarah Kofman; on the childhood of art, genesis, structure and repression

Abstract

The present article gives an account of a deconstructive reception together with the effort of elaborating a psychoanalytic conceptuality to understand the "childhood" of art. It is the idea of "childhood", of its genetic and structural understanding, through the study of repression, that is of interest to develop. The result of this analysis understands childhood by dis-identifying it from a foundation based on the temporal present, radicalizes in this sense an idea of the past that has never taken place, and goes on to propose a horizon where childhood works with another order of resources; substitution, double bind, the double in general. This is a first attempt to reinsert the deconstructive discussion in the author's psychoanalytic reception.