Statement 41

“The perpetual threat, that is, the shadow of haunting (and haunting is, like the phantom or fiction of an Evil Genius, neither present nor absent, neither positive nor negative, neither inside nor outside), does not challenge only one thing or another; it threatens the logic that distinguishes between one thing and another, the very logic of exclusion or foreclosure, as well as the history that is founded upon this logic and its alternatives. What is excluded is, of course, never simply excluded, neither by the cogito nor by anything else, without this eventually returning-and that is what a certain psychoanalysis will have also helped us to under­stand.” Jacques Derrida, Resistances of Psychoanalysis , Translated by Peggy Kamus (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1988), pp. P. 88