Martine Derzelle

2014

The Impeded Thought

What a surprising title! ‘‘The Impeded Thought.’’ But by whom? By what? An external censorship imposing a norm that replaces reality? An internal censorship confused with the norm it strives to recreate? Asking such questions about a concept like hypochondria suggests the uncommon liberty of an unfettered reflection, free to get to the heart of things: questioning itself as well as questioning its object. Extreme approach but only possible way to recognize that ‘‘obvious things,’’ isolated from the objectification process that produced them, have become inescapable epistemological obstacles, and that, to go beyond the resulting lockedup thought, only a radical reflection on locked-up thought itself can help.