Andrews, Alice. 2011. Autoimmune Illness as a Death-drive: An Autobiography of Defence. Mosaic: a journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature, 44(3), pp. 189-203. [Article]

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This essay returns Derrida’s metaphor of autoimmunity to its biomedical origins and explores how various autobiographical narratives of autoimmune disease can provide a novel reading of Derrida’s deconstruction of the Freudian death-drive. I argue that Derrida’s autoimmunity autoimmunely secures the risks of psychoanalysis, science, science fiction, and deconstruction itself.

Item Type:	Article
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event September 2011 Published
Item ID:	13636
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2015 12:11
Last Modified:	07 Jul 2017 13:02
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/13636

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