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| Named Person: | Sigmund Freud |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jacques Derrida |
| ISBN: | 0226143368 9780226143361 0226143678 9780226143675 |
| OCLC Number: | 34752547 |
| Notes: | Originally presented as a lecture June 5, 1994, at an international colloquium entitled: Memory : the Question of Archives in London, England. |
| Description: | 113 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Series Title: | Religion and postmodernism. |
| Other Titles: | Mal d'archive. |
| Responsibility: | Jacques Derrida ; translated by Eric Prenowitz. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
As a depository of civic record and social history whose very name derives from the Greek word for town hall, the archive would seem to be a public entity, yet it is stocked with the personal, even intimate, artifacts of private lives. It is this inherent tension between public and private which inaugurates, for Derrida, an inquiry into the human impulse to preserve, through technology as well as tradition, both a historical and a psychic past. What emerges is a marvelous expansive work, engaging at once Judaic mythos, Freudian psychoanalysis, and Marxist materialism in a profound reflection on the real, the unreal, and the virtual.
Intrigued by the evocative relationship between technologies of inscription and psychic processes, Derrida offers for the first time a major statement on the pervasive impact of electronic media, particularly e-mail, which threaten to transform the entire public and private space of humanity. Plying this rich material with characteristic virtuosity, Derrida constructs a synergistic reading of archives and archiving, both provocative and compelling.
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