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Notes of: Jacques Derrida, "Archive Fever, A Freudian Impression" (1995)

Etymology of the word archive:

“arche”: commencement and commandment, ontology and authority

taking the place/ having the place

two orders of orders: sequential and jussive

commencement: according to nature or to history

nomological -> commandment

latin: archivum, archium -> greek arkheion -> domicile of magistrates, the commanders.

Magistrates as documents’s guardians. they interpret the archive

Documents are classified under a certain privileged topology.

Intersection of the topological and the nomological

domiciliation of the archive: at once visible and invisible

the archontic power (magistrates) embed classification identification unification and .... consignation.

consigning: gathering together signs

coordination, ideal configuration

in archive: no separation, no heterogenity no secret

A science of the archive should include the theory of institutionalization.

Politics of the archive, crucial and embedded issue

“There is no political power without the control of the archive, if not of memory.”

Democratization: access origin participation to the archive

"Forbidden Archives" by Sonia Combe

repressed archive: power of the state over the historian

three hypotheses based on the impression left by the Freudian signature

EXERGUE

Exergue: cite before beginning, accumulating capital in advance, giving the order

institutive and conservative function

archival violence

archive/museum

2 places of inscription: printing and circumcision

1.

Freud prints something that is common knowledge, there is an intuition which works in silence, that destroys its own archive

the condition of effacing, its own traces

the death-drive is archiviolitic with some exceptions. Which ones?

The archiviolitic drive is never present in person.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_drive

No archive without outside

death drive is no principle, it threatens archival desire, it is archive fever.

Evil to God as Jew to Aryan. Exculpation, sense-giving. Exteriority

Magic Mystic Pad

Role of archival machines

two orders of questions: 1. theoretical exposition of psychoanalysis 2. archivization of psychoanalysis .

“the archivable and the archiving of the archive”

how archival machines affect the content of the archive (in this case psychoanalysis)?

mechanical remarks: machines would affect not only secondary recording but events itselves (think about pseudoevents)

{documenting an event through different technologies, orality, written word, video, mail, chat, letter... even better: inventing devices with constrints to archive}

archivization is production

relation to technology

“what is no longer archived in the same way, is no longer lived in the same way”

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layering and signs of each layer