Abstract
Alain de Lille’s De planctu Naturae is the most self-contradictory of texts. Yet it is deliberately so and serves to complicate the antonymic relationship between deviance and “natural” desire. Alain effects this “ambiguity and reversibility” of binary oppositions through the medicamen of metaphorical substitution and in the process provides a striking analogue to the pharmakon that Derrida argues to be the structural principle subtending Plato’s Phaedrus.
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