RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Wax Paper, Death Drive
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Death drive/ destruction drive (related to forgetfulness) Freud interested in this as well as derrida. Derrida also interested in how has psychoanalysis been archived. ** release archive from its status as concept and think of it as an impression (title) Impression is more fluid (to claim it a concept is to define it in a way that precludes other possibilities) 2 kinds of archives (1) individual repository of repressed memories (2) public repository of events. 2 dimensions: place of commencement and commandment archive. Traves meaning of an archive (greek meaning) Command: figure who decides what should be and not be included in the. There is authority involved, which institutes and interprets. Ex. court building and freud"s house both as site of archive and law/ authority. Archive is not neutral, it intersects with privilege. Archivist has hermeneutical power (power to interpret) Power over the archive > historian who reads through the archive needs to bear this in mind.
