Eftichis Pirovolakis teaches literature and philosophy at the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

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Introduction

1. Ricoeur on Husserl and Freud: From a Perceptual to a Reflective Present

Ricoeur Reading Husserl: The Thick Present and Continuity
Freud's Quantitative Hypothesis and Unconscious Autonomy
From a Perceptual to a Reflective Present

2. Derrida and Rhythmic Discontinuity

Husserl's Aporia: Discontinuity and Repetition
The Necessary Possibility of Difference and Syncopated Temporality
Freud: Permeability and Impermeability, Life and Death
First Inscription and Nachträglichkeit
Scriptural Metaphorics

3. Ricoeur's Hermeneutics of the Self

The Singularity of the Speaking Subject
Idem and Ipse: From Narrative Identity to the Ethical Self
Benevolent Selfhood
Oneself as Another
Concluding Remarks

4. Secret Singularities

Spacing, Iterability, Signatures
Secrets of Speech
Originary Mourning: In Memory of the Absolutely Other
An Unexperienced Experience: The Absolute Arrivant
Expropriation

Conclusion

Appendix: "The Word: Giving, Naming, Calling," by Jacques Derrida

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