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Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
In Archive Fever, Jacques Derrida deftly guides us through an extended meditation on remembrance, religion, time, and technology—fruitfully occasioned by a deconstructive analysis of the notion of archiving. Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive...more
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
October 15th 1998
by University of Chicago Press
(first published 1995)
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Derrida occupies a paradoxical position for me: I like his conclusions but dislike his language-intensive methods. Few things seem as interesting but ultimately useless as etymology, and he (predictably) begins this book with an etymology (or "deconstruction" if you must) of the word "archive." Repeated puns and word tricks abound, it all feels very circular, and Derrida makes a habit of pointing out the things he won't have time to address, will address elsewhere, has addres...more
This is a dense but brilliant book. It's only 111 pages in my edition but you have to concentrate, as Derrida contemplates on archives, time, Judaism and Jewishness, Sigmund Freud, psychoanalysis... There's a lot of meat and potatoes in this book!
i get a little tired of how derrida writes, looping around in his thoughts, but then at other times i find it nutritious. but man, what a subject, freud is endlessly fascinating, and scary.
Appropriately, I forgot what I learned from this book.
Sometimes a pseudo-Freudian notion: Of all the books by French theory types that I own and have never read, I consider most often picking this one up, not because the topic--as I understand it from the dust jacket and initial pages--particularly interests me, but simply because it is one of the few gifts that my father ever gave me that was characterized by an attempt to take into account my (then) current interests. So I feel a bit guilty that I never got more than a few pages in, but not--for ...more
Oh goodness guys, I probably really understood only one sentence out of every hundred in this book. Not only does Derrida expect to you already be well-versed in Freud, but he also expects you to be intimately familiar with his previous work. I am an expert in neither.
I read this back in 1998 when I first entered my Philosophy program. It as a true hazing experience, but now that e-mail and other e-mediums have shown up, JD's Deconstruction of the Arkhe of e-mail is even more timely.
really good
I've started this one, but it's not as fascinating as some of the other works that directly address the production of discourse. This is still an important work, though.
Don't let my rating scare anyone away. Derrida has always made my head spin, so I'm a bad one to rate anything by him.
mmmm, Derrida AND Freud..what? I know, it's wonderful.
The most terrible book I've ever read, so far!
the theses are cleft--big surprise!
I wasn't truly interested in this.
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Derrida was born on July 15, 1930, in El-Biar (near Algiers), then French Algeria, into a Sephardic Jewish family, the third of five children. His parents named him Jackie, supposedly after a Hollywood actor, though he would later adopt a more "correct" version of his first name when he moved to Paris.[2] His youth was spent in El-Biar, Algeria.
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