RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Death Drive, Psychoanalysis
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Derrida has a distinct style and rhythm of wiring. Archive is not a question of past, but question of future. ** in archive, there is built-in death drive. Ex. there is an orientation toward the future in the repetition of the archive archivable. Archive is not external to the content of it, but directly responsible to what is. D: argues that psychoanalysis itself is theory of archive, not only a theory of memory. Wax of mystic writing pad is the domain of the archive. D: suggests that f offered a theory of archive through psychoanalysis and wants to find this theory. Psychoanalysis includes 2 drives (1) conserving/ life preserving (2) destruction (thus through pa we reach the archive) The more you destroy, the more you must preserve. The solution is to archive more and more. There is no archive fever without the threat of the death drive (19) We have a drive to self-destruct; civilization tames that.
