Abstract

NAPOLI, Diana. “New histories”: Archive Fever. Hist. graf [online]. 2016, n.46, pp.109-128. ISSN 1405-0927.

In this article, the author wants to show how Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression of Jacques Derrida offers a philosophical elaboration of the meaning of the “age of memory” and what François Hartog called “presentism”. Derrida’s essay examines the inseparable relationship between the desire for archiving and his consubstantial “fever” (radical desire for destruction), between the impression (conservation) on one side and the repression and suppression on the other. Historiography can fulfill its task only taking on itself the wide range of such operations. Memory and the watchful warning to a past that must always be present, risk to be just an utopian view of an archive without its “fever”, that is to say an eternal present without history.

Keywords : Derrida; archive; Freud; repression; suppression.

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