Foreword by Philippe Van HautePreface Opening ActPhilosophizing in psychoanalysis The doctrine of experience The other Rubicon The backlash IntroductionGo take a lookChapter OneKeep moving, nothing to see The end of the Enlightenment Toward another paradigm Collapse of the system Chapter TwoBeware of it Conceiving the inconceivable The disillusion of psychoanalysis Primitive man Chapter ThreeIt’s not nothing The drive at the frontier Rooting in the organic Presence and resistance Chapter FourWhat is it? A disturbing uncanny Death and repetition The anorganic Chapter FiveIt concerns me Being lived The knight of the Id Being there for something Chapter SixIt touches me Where the Id was The draining of the Zuyderzee The great cavalcade ConclusionWhat’s God have to do with it? For the salvation of the Id Apart from it The realm of the Id EpilogueRegarding all of itNotes Bibliography Index rerum Index nominumThe special role of psychoanalysis in the development of phenomenologyThe confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an 'excess of meaning', and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions. This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say 'Nothing to It' indicates that the 'It'-or Freudian Id-is not visible as it never shows itself as a 'phenomenon'. Such a reading of Freud exemplifies how psychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology's development.The confrontation between philosophy and psychoanalysis has had its heyday. After the major debates between Paul Ricoeur, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, and Michel Henry, this dialogue now seems to have broken down. It has therefore proven necessary and gainful to revisit these debates to explore their re-usability and the degree to which they can provide new insights from a contemporary point of view. It can be said that contemporary philosophy suffers from an ‘excess of meaning’, and this is exactly where psychoanalysis comes in and may raise key questions. This is precisely what a philosophical reading of Freud demonstrates. To say ‘Nothing to It’ indicates that the ‘It’—or Freudian Id—is not visible as it never shows itself as a ‘phenomenon’. Such a reading of Freud exemplifies how psychoanalysis has a special role to play in phenomenology's development.