ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a certain intersection in Schmitt's thinking on the concept of the constitution and that of Derrida on khora and the crypt. It then examines Schmitt's reflections in Constitutional Theory on the constitution as something that is 'given' to a concrete political unity alongside Derrida's analysis of Plato's Timaeus and also explores the notion of khora. Khora in a certain sense 'gives place', which is arguably also the primary function of a constitution. The chapter describes Schmitt's analysis of the relation between liberal constitutionalism and the concept of the political to Freud's case study of the Wolf Man, more specifically the subsequent reading thereof by Abraham and Torok, as well as by Derrida. According to Schmitt liberal constitutionalism seeks to 'repress' or 'force back' the political component of the constitution, whereas it actually lies at the 'origin' of the constitution, and continues to have an effect on such constitution.
