93 * Universidad nacional autonoma de Mexico In the documentary flm Derrida 1 , Derrida prescribes to those who say that Sein- feld is a deconstructive “sitcom” to do their homework, to read and study, be- cause a sitcom has little or nothing to do with the project of deconstruction. On the contrary, regarding Freud and philosophy, Derrida did his homework and he did it really well. He read Freud carefully and closely studied him, looked into him attentively, examined him and fnally established an intellectual re- lationship with Freud in which his thought began to speculate with that of the psychoanalyst’s. (To speculate is the verb that will run through this entire es- say). Freud and the Scene of Writing and To Speculate — On “Freud”, rather than being mere analysis or criticisms of certain Freudian discoveries, are both texts that turn out to be reading and writing exercises, which entail an almost obses- sive (ob-scene) observation of the structure, style, and of the marginal of some of Freud’s manuscripts. In both these articles, the creativity of Derrida’s pen has a profoundly theoretical and radically metaphysical sense. What I mean is that beyond his gestures, small signs, double entendres and expositive digressions, there is a sage metaphysic meditation. I said meditation, but in this context, Freud’s and Derrida’s, it seems more ap- propriate to say metaphysical speculation. To Speculate — On “Freud” is funda- mentally a refection on Freud’s speculation in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. 2 I think the text’s title has more than one meaning. Speculate and specular – which come from the same Latin root, specere, to look, according to the Mer- riam-Webster Dictionary, have the following meanings: 1. Specular: relating to, or having the properties of a mirror. 2. Speculate: to think about something and make guesses about it, to form ideas or theories about something usually 1 Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman, “Derrida,” (USA: Zeitgeist Films, 2000). DVD. 2 Chapter IV of Beyond the Pleasure Principle opens with a sort of confession where Freud says: “What follows is speculation, ofen far-fetched speculation…” (Sigmund Freud, “Be- yond the Pleasure Principle”. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, vol. XVIII. Ed. James Strachey. London: Vintage, 1920. p. 24). Rosaura Martínez Ruiz* Freud and Derrida: Writing and Speculation (or When the Future Irrupts in the Present) Filozofski vestnik | Letnik XXXVI | Številka 3 | 2015 | 93–112