ABSTRACT
Jacques Derrida speaks of himself as 'author of more or less legitimate writings about Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Husserl, Heidegger, Benjamin, Austin'. Derrida shows how, in spite of their more or less noisy declarations, these texts really do rely on metaphysical foundations, or at least show up an unthought solidarity with the metaphysical tradition. In both cases, the reading posits that the text read is at least double, divided between what Of Grammatology calls the propos, the 'statement' and 'another gesture', or else between what is declared and what is said. Like any thinker, including Derrida, Freud must draw his concepts from the metaphysical tradition; and like any thinker who thinks something new, who invents something, he must invent on the back of these inherited concepts. And this circanalysis would then be exemplary of a more general thought of justice which would have to be attributed not to Freud, nor simply to Derrida, but to their relation.
