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111.: C11.110 C.I ...et us not begin at the beginning, nor

lint rather at the word "archive" — and %vial the archive of so

oullar a word, ArkbiFr tvf: recall, names a t of tee the commencemeni

2(14.1 thi2 4 cdnyarr.11410.11e OLE . tlY1S. 3 ICH Le ilppdrently courdiriatcs twc II I 'rim-c iples ihc principle atcorcliiig to nal LUC Or 13 Nti)1 . Y. their

things rornmence— physic:El. historical, or ontological prin-

ciple—but also the principle according 1-1.3 the law. Men-s titre men

(I gods command. rhexc where authority, social order are

fi fir place I R41.11 which corder is given—lionkological principle-

Then; vwc alit! Lrl this place. arc we to think of Mtn'?

And this takjoq. place r ir this ha riNg a Magic' of tlicrrrkhi?rhere two ()Niers of order: 5.equrritial ;Ind jusficr. Firms

this I,a lint. on, a series of cleavages will incessantly divide every atn in

cat' ()lir lexicon,. Alfe.a14h affhe cif tEai COMinCriccrrIc lit,

Lo die according Lek nature or according to

ISISLrar I ticling stir mill itioilSly th:ilii CP113Clattl and probiclii

;Ric 41)151,-;11 jury; hciwrt- IL physi ;1 i1 I i ts othcrs. fek.113 1.101133.17.C.

ci•., which are Frrund to b.e 2t work in dm oilier principle, the

immological principle of the arokhi". the principle ul the command-

ment. All would he simple if Lilac were Wu: principle or two pr in-

Liplcs. All would Ii simplc if tits jPhysis anal cad) one ils others

•erc Gilt rbf [WI] As vie hat c str5j5c4,:teil rar n !ging time, ii is tioi liiitg

of i lir sort, .1., et we arc Forever flrr getting this. There is always morc

than olic LAO More Ea' Iris than two_ In the ord•r of the Cum-

incticenirriC .1S well :is in (he order of the commandment.The concept of the archive shelters in iRsrlf, ot . course, this

memory of the name ark , 131.Lt it also shriicri itse.11 from thiswhich it shelters; which Conies down Lt] Saying alSu that it

folge Ls it. rflicrr nothing accident.1.1 or surprtsing about thiS..

Coin iJr 1.41 ilnpr.m it in IMC often has, sit•h .t concept IS nut racyto archive. (The has ti.nlible, and for essential reasons, establishingit and interpreting It in the document if delivers to US, here in the

word which names it, rhai is n•ilirdLive." In a v..ay, [he term in-deed refers. 31% 1)15{` WORM 4.:01" laly 111.711CVC, DO (]YC arkhi: 111 the

4IM•ir ed., fir effittnie.Igirdi PieC1SC, whI•111 i c t{P Mir' 1KP 1.111C 714i-

11ary, the fi.rst, rhe principial„ thr primitive, in shin!. to 'lir com-mencement -. lint even more, a rid awn rariter, '1 ;11T1LIVS! " TEICES tti thear10.? in the nomologicat sense.. to the arkilic; theyAS is WC case lor the 1....0.1.tn are:An/•m or MON. U17.1 (a 1.)..'ufd that is

u00.1 in the SinglIk1f. wive:v. the French ardrur, formic' ly employed;q. 3 111LISCILI:5114: singuildr: lhe meaning of "ArclIIVC,.. its

incaning, <1..FrlieS t(a it from the Greek arkbrion: Milli:111y 3

huuse, a ClOrnicile, an address, the residence of the sll FM' HI) r tl kagin-train, the tifthellS, those who commanded. The citizens who 11111•

held a11K-I Siguilicd political lic.oli.ver were CuliSiderCd 10 pOSScSS the

light to Make or to represent the law. On at:intuit ctl their ptIbliCly

rc•ognized Anhui ity, iC is at 1110...`iir home, in lhat plat' which is ihciihouse (pr .1.1•att! 1101,154.7, Llnily house, or emplOyce ic honse), that ofii-

cipl m ;-1 re filed. Tlie are hOfkS arc first of all the dOCkirrient.N 1

Thtv du nut (nay ensure the phySiCill St.!Ctirity O what isclepu,iicd and or thc ThCy are Aso ic.•cord•d theMUIR: I OIL and compclenCe. They hoe powrr ttl interpret die

archives.. Flkili.1%10EI 1 13 .4.1114- 11 arclions, these documents in effectspeak the law: they recall the law and call no or impose the 131.9..r.

1*• guarded thus, in the jurisdiction of this 174.rking the lair. they114.-.ed.cd ar once a guardian and a localization. L....Veil ill1.1101111[P 1.3r their hertnclictilii: traditiOn„ the ..irchiyes oyuld du ❑ c.i•

thrr without stihntralt-

Et IS thlds. 1ILIS III this hr11.1SC 'an-c.v. that arc:hives.

take place. The ckvelling, this place where they dwell licrnianiently,

11T1:.1r1.;.:.... ilk institutional passap,c from the pri•al0. To the public,

kich dun WI a 1 y ! De 10.3i Il the -SC “et to tilC 11013WC. re t- (It is

what is happening, right here, When a house the Freuds 1 IASI

heronicc a museum: di passage from one institutionto an-other.) With such a status, the documents, which are not alwaysdiscursive winings, are cmily kept and classified under the title of

archivr virtue of a privileged mprifogy, They inhabit this1.1111:4_11111110[1 IPLCC, tlti 1]134.:c of cll:Ction where talk' A111] singtihriny

intersect in privilco. At the inlersee (ion o ilie topological and the

nomoIngical, C.•1 the [-dart! and the law, or I he substrate and the au-thority, a scene of dorniciliation becomes at once visible and invis-ible. 1 stress this point Cur reasons which will, 1 hope, appcai . moreclearly [atm • licy all have to du with this wpo.immniogy, with thii

did 11111111C i)1 iliminicithition, with this orChic, ini trlatli pa

ion. without which no archive would ever come intoplay or appear as such, To shelter itself and, sheltered, to concealitself '1 'his a fcliontie linicLiou is nOt SUlely topo-lioniological. Itdoes not only require that the archive Ix: deposited somewhere., on

$1.11111e substrate, .11141 al die diSliansil ion via legitimate herrilene111 it

authority. The archontic power., which also gathers the functionsof unification, of identification, of classification., must be pairedwirh what we will call the power of consignation. 13y consignation,we do not only me-an, iJl the ordinary SCine L 11C word, Ike act

of assigning residence or of entrusling Su fl 14) put intu reserve (to

consign, io.dcposit), in 3 plate' and on 3 SI.lbstrittc, but here the act

4)1 . r rirrsig i fig llinuttgli gathering trogctire• sign!. It is niii only the

trallitiOnal cormigruArio, that is. the written proof, but what all con -

signori° begins liy presupposing_ Consignation aims to coordinate risingle corpus, in a System or a SVJICIll -Ony in which .111 the cicinents

arttlailittE. WC Unity or an ideal. Configuration. In an art:hive, there

si1C.Kilti Mit br any absolute dissiiciation, any liererngcricilv fieVIre'l

which. could sc -1i;irate (carraere), or partili011, in an obsolllbe !Thin-

ner. The arehontic principle of the archive is also a principle ofconsignai Din, [hat is, of gathL r i rig together.

It goes. wiElhaut :saying lion) now on that witercvm tale Could

attempt, :t!141 ini pattiCillar in Freudian psychoanalysis, to rethinkthe place and the law according to which the a rchmtie beCOMCFr

instituted, wherever one could interrogate or contest, directly orindirectly, this archontic principle. its authority, irs Titles, and its

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gcncalogy, the right that it commands, the legality or the legiti-

macy that depends on it, wherever s.ccrcts and betel ogencits. would

)4:C1 [I Lu )4:111.111“Ve. I .1 1.11It: possibility of Lonsignancw, this LaIL C_1111. 1 •

114L'04• graveg.' ,1)115.01.]10L:111XN 1 -01 .1 l lltclry or thc archive, d.:5. WCI1 ;1S for

its implementation, I .5ciroce of thr .:111ECIVIVC must in-

clude the theory 01: this in stitntiorial t7atinn, 111;11 say. the theoryboth or d law which begins by inscribing its.elf there and c theright which authorizes it_ This right imposcs or StiliptISE3 blind1C

Id limits which Ila•e a history, a ticconstruc tabk history, and LO 1.11.0

lirCO1 rlifli4 )11 GI 111C11 psych( Nina] ySIS 11;45 I VA be.:1.11 for S.:1.w, to Sil."y

IA:1.1!!Ft. 1 .111S cleeonstruci ion in progress concerns, ;IS always, theinsult tnion E.}1 limits declared to be IiiStJi . rnountable, L whether theyinvolve 1...3E1)il• or state law, the relations between the secret and thenunsei_tei, or, and this m not 113c Sal 1.3 c think between the prisinetLlLl the whether 1 1 icy inlrcrlyc nix. ty or ilICITS.0 righis,

lication (Fr rrprotlitel ion right% iNhether they invillve classification

arid putting nix) order. What comes under theory or under private

1. Of course, the question Of a. pIllitiCS ui t6., .411:1 .6 1m is +14117 iserioartrill ori•

col:11101k 11471i, r Cli if [Ile id d lecture does u.ot rinit US L'_ Lrcat 113. 5

ill evc kly a ru3 with eNalnples. Fhis kiiicsliisn will i3c•c.i LK- inific4.1 :IN 41 11C

11+117114 ;I I 4.11.11r%[1C11] 111114 ing 114 hers_ It runs 01irmir,11 Ihs whole eif the FIC1 1 arlcl iii

truth (lett rrnirtcs polities from top to t..14.141[01n as 1C ptebilea. T Ile re is no

sal ix.rwrr Without Lulartal tri th.c. dirdli've, If •,IFeL live &null

i 74111 1 41 1.'.1n thiA essential VA I

III and the Access. E0 the archive its constitution_ and its irtterp.reiation. A1.011.1 111C hie:Aches y CJI1 II•c 17 ica:5Urt41 by what d rt- 001111 and In Su111;kily ways ICEILIfk.1111.c. i.vork For f.triden Archire4 1:.1re hires ?Far•n.1;14-1

f frpr.rrg car4 (2.1 Le% flu? d t7J;.1741ire 4'11.17M-1.11r91111114').. Un.cler this tit k, which weilte as the triettinvinry of ail Chat is. IIILIk►fE211.1. ILL re- , Sun I gl CjOltlibt not Only

g.1111{ r .4 L 11, 11 .1.1411•tAlde 4.- eillf•1ion h.) inrcairro it,

4.k rainrIerTstIS CS:CC:15 111AI CkleSKIg)1) -5 about the writing of hivlory, a 11.1113! ihr "rr

.11 4.1111VC 1 'HMI, iti)out al-Chive" -pl_luvr • • • Of.

the 51,1,Lc over the i 2 L I. Aiming all of ilICSC [SI][]I is, A1141 III r1 11ic lxuik, kr nc i mlatc here the one thot 15 ersitiOrkant, In .1

wa.F_ with tlic low trine of ouf hypoillests, even if this furtdainental note. themg. r Love!' I. 4111 IkLr 11111.1 - 1%. •As if in Emslins, Ukritilx aNks in

rfjrrl: "L lhor- lla ka1 I r111riled gf ring ionic creili t to the irdlip,virig 41111.4 • r

vati on, but It ,do e...$ nor wriri gorily III Ise 411ir [4110111r ih:111CC that the corporation

wc1I-kriown historian,. Lit t.i.Fiiterni.x?rair) Fra211.4.• t% Esscia1131)., aril! fr ugh 0w cxLciitilorn, . TIM I burr, 1.1I1r 1111114' rSkirm 3154) I 1.1511.

correspondtnce. for example? What conics under systern? tinder

biogratilty or autobiography? under L.Fersimial Sir 3E1LC11.CCI. Mk 1 a naln-

nesis? In S Saii1 ELJ lK alCOIrriital, what is worthy of this naincand .what is nor::. Should tiny rely on what /;rend says this Ito-

Ci.1:55.11y his workiI „Should one for example take him at his word

v.:11e. ❑ he presents his. Moses as a "historical novel'"? In each 01 thesecases, the limits, We hordt ts, and the dis.t have 1Jker.:11 Lkc II

by an Cara/ 4_141a ke 1runL ke.•/IiCh do claAsificatiolial concept and no

it113141EnCillaR1 43 11i c .tf the archive C;10 sheltered. Order is nn longer

.71.SSUCC411.

I dream now of having. the tian to submit for your 1.1iSOISSiOn

niurc than one thesis, niece tit 1 c ...a This time will never tar giwc ll

to tire. Allhi•c all, l will never 151We the right to nilte you r titlir sir

as 141 impose upon you, rapid Fire, these three n essays_ Submitled to the test, or your discussion, these theses thus rtinain„ for thetime being., hytiotheses. Incapable of supporting tlicir demonstra-

iii_pn„consitailied to posit along the way ill a 110.1...1dC 4 11/11i.C+1 11•011

AppCilr apt times dogmatic, l will recall thcm in a inure c ritical And

11.1 n r in CO11(111610 .

The- hypotheses hne A common trait. They all concern the illq -

pre.k.Cio.Y0? 1Cft. in Inv opinion, by klic Freudian signature' on its ownarchive, on the concept of the archive and of archi•ization„ that isto !iay also, inversely and as an indircci coILSCEALPCIICC, Lin historiog-raphy. Not nly iii Ih.iNtoliooaphy in general, not only on the hib-

tory of o tilt- concept rii tli• ;naive, but perhaps also on the historyformarion, of a rant tr rr1 Re-neva /. We are s.aying for the time

Fx in Fretdian sigmartre os not to IlAYc. co decide yet beti,....eenSigmund Freud, the pioper name, On the one hand, 3 Lid, an te'

oilier the invention of psyclmartalysis.: projcct of knowledge, ofprat:tiKr and 1.1 IIL'1titLi(icFr1. community, filthily,. licM111C:111416111, COO -

signal/Jan. - 11.1111.54.' " "11111.15C 431 n ," iIS the prcs-cnt stale of its a rchivi-zation. 1 h3t is in question is Iiicated precisely &queen the two.

I laving thus announced WV intentions. and promised to colleLt

thiciti st1 ;15 LO C0111:114.11li 3114.pl.e organizecl frill 1131' I ask yi.Fui

permission to take the Linu: and the liberty to curer upon sevcral

Icngthy prcliminary cxcuirsions,

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Aetording to a proven t -orivention. the exergtec plays with citation.TU CRC before beginning is to give the tone through the resonance01 a few words, the meaning or form of winch ought to set thestage, En other exergne consists in capitalizing ink ali el•hpsis. In arcii[riolating capital in advance and in vrepa ring the stir -plus value ol*Nn archive. An excrguc serves to stock in anticipationand to preRrehive a lexicon which, from there on, ought to laydnwn the law and give the order, even if this rnt.....ans contenting itself

natiling the proble..rn, that is., the subject. In this way, the cx-ergue haS allR2C illstILtitive anal a conservative function: theviolciLcc 01,1 Flower (Gewalt) Mil,: h at once posits a n cl con5Cr•:c. thelow. as the fieni:imin of Zur Kritik der Gewalt Nvi) did sa ,)% What isat issue here, starting with the exergue, is the violence of 'he ar-chive itself, as archnv, rr.j arthiati

IL is thus I In: first figuic of an archive', because curry archive, Wi

wi!!! clear~' .,„1.)mc inicEctices II mit this, is at once Institutive and too,kri•ifi•e. Revoliniollary and traditional. An C -nOrIliC archive inthis double sense: it keeps, it puts in reserve, it saves, but in anunnatural fashion,. that is to sav irk making the law (noPni.b) of inmaking people respect the law_ A moment ago we called it not1io-

1.1. has the fiircc onave, or a low which 1. N the law oht he house4ok.9.5), of the house is illACC, dOlTlieile, family, lineage, or institu-tion, I laving become a intISCUM. 1 7reies, house takes in all thesepowers of eco nom T.

I '14.1] C :MIMS will exercise in themselves, in Limit- exergual fiirrii,mich a function ol archival cr„:0E1011i1 . But LiL iniLkiug refcrener

C 1:0E1 1-1 .131y II and implicit eel-ea-Ace, they will alsohave this function orc theinc or :LS. 011:11C.T .L. These. citations CC.1111:42

alasl bind bet thelllSriVeS, IlApS secretly, two places or tri-scriprion: prifaing and crrcurndiciore_

lac firi f f..if dr. el r e.tergtieS is the n]rarC .typugrapii / •ra. The archr•usernis 114-rr r4 confrirrn hriter tgi its OnitCctill.. ile4:21.1Se it is ellittlls.tril

lhe outside,. to an externa l' stibstrate and not, as the sign ,,r thecove ria n[ in ci rcu mcisi ko ail inark, Fight on 1 he Au—ea ] ledbut] proper. 130t where >tS Outs ide coin on e Lice? '['leis iliac:it ionLs thc to.cstjun J rch rec. There 41rc- noodle's.

At the EK-giiinia5g of charocr 6 cd and kr Dim-whet•Ark(1929 30), Freud pretends to worry, Is he not investing in uselessexpcnditure 3 Is lie nor in the process of rninbililiiij,2, a ponderousarchiving machine (press, printing !, ink, paper} to record somethingwhich in the end does nut tnCtil. 5111C11 C.x.IMIlse? Is nut 'Whin isptuparing Ii deliver 10 tli• [}1 •I w c1 Isivial as to be ay:111111)• co.cry's-I -re? The Freudian 11•34ictin litre inticet1 s trrsses a certain"prini i rig" technology of archivizA (kindruck Druck. eirtie'ker1),but on h. see :lq ICh feign the faulty eciinotnic calculation. Freud alsoentrusts to its the 'itnpuession" {/-:mplinfiung), the ferl Mg inspiredhi• this C. Xi:C SS3 4,11 t1d ultimately C.N (t1 0 1111 ilti a peril ...WsL3 SVICSS int:111Y C:

In none cif . Eny previous writings have hack so strong a reeling[/-:mpfinda.....g .1 as now that I alit de.scribing is commonkni.p.A.IEN.Ige Pike-00mm liekantifes1 and that 1 am using up paper.,iikti iiik fflo►rry wed Trlarl and, in (Inc tutirSs:, tklc coniposiIiu .s an41 priiit•r's. work a rid Ell ia ISCPC.Crarbeit tend i )rtfrker -

irrhri rfirZr all:Miami in irrcicr to expound things which are, in fact.,cc.-11E-rviclem IN19J eigevilech Jwil..utveritiinelikire Ding?. zu ef.1 -2:iih ear I..

f.' 2[:1111

I II Nil !IL, this is aL 11.11 of ink and jiver fiir rifithing, „ an typograithical volltnnc, in shrill, ;1 material substrAre which is out ol"

all proportion, in the Last analysis, to "recount" ite•ziihien) storicsthat eve.ryc.itic like inOVCtiliclit of this rhetoric leads else•where. 13-cc ;kuw i ;Lrelld e lr.aves :mother inference, in the retrusipcetivelogic kinarc- perfect: toifl heae. to have intetild an originalproposition .wilich will make the investment profitable. In other

words, he will kia lie fuuntl soineth,i14,... new ff.? psychoanaly-

si5: a 'imitation or a break within his own theoretical institution_And he Nvill have not only to have announced stinie new., bur alsoIto, have archivecl it: to liave pot ir, as ir were, ref the pr•.rf:

[=or that reason 1 should be glad te.r 5cize the point if it weft toappear that the itcognition of a speeii-11, independent a.ggresiiive

[otre-a brs oquleren, selbsiiindigen Agressionitricbcsi meansan ALI:ration. of the psycho-analytic tlicory fir thc ...minds. [SE21:1171

T11C ant] flit logic of this paritgrapti are vertiginouslyLutilling. All LtIL beC.P.mic atcy feign ihsalinel I ii..avetLIn

can also lx: rt-.14.1...1.5 a tIneatritalizinge51 .irch.ivization, Freud

seems ;1r first to r•rinrin courteons tit►iatio borievoicwiar, bitlike al e one i ovvu you herr: in the trid I have nothing new tee say'.

Why detain you with these worn-out stories? 4Vhili this wastedhinc: Why tit-chive tins? Why thew investinents in paper, in ink,

Lrr diard.(1.4:.tv.' Why niot -Filiz.c so inucli space 4ind .50 Mad' wurk, s4)

much Lypograpitie composition? I.)oes merit printing? Aren'tstories to hr 11:11.1 eVeryv•liere?

If it is not without perversity, this captatio hencivIentiae tunis Collt

to be itself o. useless exi_mi(liture, the fiction of a sort of - rhetolicalquestion:" lirin ICL [iately alterward,. Freud suggests CitCCIt tll II Li S

iirchniz...ition would nut be so vain. rind a p.tere loss, in ihr hypothe-

sis that it tvould cause I'' apprar What irk fact he Arrntly knows

catic to appcAr, and lihnS. chic is nut hypothesis for hint, ah ypothesis sul.unitted for discussion, but rather ail irresistible thesis.namely tht. possibility or radical perversion, indeed, .0. diabOlical

ticath drive, an aggression or a tlr.struction drive: a drike, 1 11 L3 5, rd

loss. - I - 13C test of the chapter recalls everything which bad alrcatly,since lit-I...whir the Pleagure. Principle. (I 92:0). more than tern years ear -

lie`r, iTillrOdUCed rhis des' ruction drive in the psychic economy, or

[Haler [he psychic arkecorwiliy, in clic accur6.e41 share or this pLift.

hi.ss eX1c114.1itidir. 4ii•Livws ilic 4.[Ju1lusion here yetito civi[i.zation., alkyl indeed to tiiscoliE42131A7 whilc. at rh.•. sarnr•time giving over ILO a sort ;pi au.141.1.3itagr;iphil'al.,

41171.1 instituticillial. an.ar17ne5i5. ln the cou3 .se of this teca[pituluiir)li,SirCSSCS a.11.171'4.1 :31.1 1[5,^ resistances that this death drINt 1r1C1L1:5,e'Vely-

id7CPC, (11.][NLCIC EMJCIN ;1:1. ;LS it wcirc,. 311J in pSyCluyaisalvEic

Ltrars wc11 as in hinscell

9 1.3/ clefensive arri[ude I'meinee e.rkeweir A.buy•hulWhtn 14.1Ca Cif It in5ti.rict of dcstru.c[ion fi.rsr crrielge..(1Elsvehio-unolvtic litcraluse, 81D.1 'W.V.! 1.4)11g 1E Nicik Ilw:Fmc I 1.3.c.C.Airic:

trceptive to it. [Si:: 2[; 120J

fir Emil prc:viciusly nia<ic two felllarkS, xs if 171 passiiir, iar whil.•11

1. 16'C niLiSE not fail 1.;if5t Of @II I. SiLICe

rcSi.S.EatiCc, lie Can no 14)1LgEr thuilk Qtlicrwise uch gicheticw.kceJ Frciic I h dirivc is

ntJ longrr J LIchatably hypothesic._ i:yen if [his sprt uiation r3rvci.

rakes the form cif ciern jilt is pr)siird, irfOr Ananke, fE is 1s if Freud

4:4)1.31(.1 tlf.) 10[1g.:f hCriCCrOfih, [KC irreducili.l.e.. and origiriarythis drivc he [lames heti::

sometimes 1111V1:, S41(11-12LIEUCS dr51.1'11C110[1 ;LS.

I J I17eS0 Eihrt'r 1.3.4 ,11.15.1.VUO: 111 ChiS (7151: Sy174.71L 1011S. SCCIAL{1.111dS thrre.-

11101riell. 11 rive Itl l4tc (31.0/7rm .i. EC is al wi)rk. but 5.115CV

operotes iI3 silence, it never [eaves am; it•s own. It (lc -5troys in advance its own ard i ivc. as iIl E]L -dI [71.10.11 die VCry

Li L ti it$ iimst P r 1.114VC]C1CDE. ii dcUiVr.)y fht

4.17 IAN" (0. 1',14irgfii'M&f- cjfiri. i rr E wrih cg urea , fej eifilf

it% (AM ". 11Priper 17:11Ce 4.- E,roperly

k(I 'proper." Tr (kvours it even hcrorc prcmi it FAL 111r OM..

51 de- -111 is 4Criwc, il10.111. then on, SC.0011 110E 4)111V E0 n•rvirchic,.ilnarchuntic EllUSL Jlt.pE [....irgeE (liar Ilse (Irryc, Lgiimry

rILrJ'41 1s it uiay 13. L5 1.71. a principle, ;31C [I1C 17/E.:1A1.1..1"{: 311.CI

15111:14_711.1.CN): 111.1" GIC:11111.1115+C 1.5.;.1i.117VC all. 2'.1.1.1arth.wie. 011C 4.70111(t

E 11 :.1.1 9.v.ayS 1141'1.'1: I suci rt- ii ivc.• (-..1 royiug, by silrul

vocotion

f:or f2x.Ccptiolo... Rut are ‹..x.ceptions in this cast?when. it iiikcs tllt rutin of :Hi inEcrior desire, anarchy

be NL7FC, 5.;Lvc cxccplion: that is.„

cli.C.Cpl if it tliS .R4lises excupt if i[ a intsup of paints itsert- (gefdrbl jig') iri soffit culLie Cul° r_ This irli[ott:-,:iikinof crogerioms color dn.-Ails a tnask right on thc skin. In•oihcr wolds,clic archiviolithic driyr is ncycr present in person, itsch.11111 rn its e rr(L CI It 1(4 1 C IR) I ilritni tr Lt i t O(- 9 1.1C.I !LIS IC) 1.1{3C1.1117CUL

of its (null- As inheritnnee, it lc;recs. only its eroCii: siinullerurn, its

pseudonym in pai.riting, 'Ks sexual id015, irS rnnsks raf scdurlim):Lovely impressions, These irnpressio.ris are perhaps the very origin,of ...vtiat is so olisz ure Ey called the lxauty oC [he beautiful. An tne.i]i.(1.-rie5 dead'.

Bill, 1.11c 1111.1St EJt slicsSud, artiviviolithic furcc leave!,nothing of its own. behind. As the de2th drive is also, accoi Cling t4.,

the Tn0St striking words °Ft:Fetid hin)5df, an aggression and a de •(I )eltredivron) drive, it forgcthilmrs5.,

neSia., EL: cif. memory, P.107e1r7.1Z 1.11.1ti.r77.11S, .31S4)

CIAL1311;111LIS the ICICht- ;11 [1-11111 the i-ratlic.aliork him

%I. ;laich can never 1)C rccluccd to my.iente or t o alromm7.4.i, rhat is, theconsignation, the documentary or nlontirnental apparatus

as hypopmema, rrinem otec h n ica l SLIpplernerit or representative, au x-iliary or itic.-cnormickini. Because tht! •aschive 5 if this wurd or thisJ igure caul be stabilizud su as to Laker kiwi ii signification, twill neve'he 'Adler itic:Iiiii.ry or ariairincsis alive rindexperience. { )n the cnntrary: the archive kaakcs place at the place orori gin r). and structural breakdown of the said remory.

+1114: JS rare ajrhitY' wirliout a place of comfignation, without Lr ICc'h •

11,1yEte r.11 retie. ii.11 .11)02 r anti it'LehrRie J CeYeedibl ..Vri a rch tool .6 -

ore/ •.11.i ide".[ •C't Its ncti.c r kirgel this C -7rrc.k distinction Ihr PP,117e1Ple

17.11(1a112E;g15 on the one 1Nand. and hyponinjnier cmn t its other. 'rhe ar-chive i5 hypoinnesie. And let us nott ire pa55ing aI (le.ci5ive paradoxto which will nut have to. mtliro, but which untioubt(talyLoncliLion6 thc %chyle renlark: if thete Lifi;:ilivt.`

Mit c1111&ig();1.iiiik in An exfonal place which ii5S1.11rei:. the pos6iliilitycif flr rcritntitiati, c )f re puf)clurrion, or flireimpressian,

(hell triusr nisi) rcMin.r1libCt [KA air logic of re pc-

Ell 1.011, kr.' I II he rrili'1L111511 ( -.0.13L11L31SiOt1, :I•C1}rtlit1g 11)

I ; rynkl. Erimi L[ic rivc. nLI thus irci.r]L

6011_ C'OE1SI:CIL3r1Lri. right 0Ik that vi hiCh [11.°3 - 1Elitki

aridliiViKal .1.013, Vie Will EleVer rilld ;LINCLI -1211g idler 11141.11 CILNL

CYI)USLS O.} tiC2S!ILLCELCI.(1 7 and IL] Ulla! illtrEtCel.1.4 iiii cieStiU1A.30.111, in-

ti priCtrir ?CtE1ilE11•55. 4111{1 the a[CILIViLd]LilIC

r 11•10111.1FliCra1. I tliC 3LSCIE. ' 1 . 11C 1.11iVC ;11.

N.V.;k3•C Wrirkc..

Thc cic.:Trb drikie tends chnc is cieSTriTy [he hypin]ifietie archive.,

excepc if . it can he made up, [minced, pri[tted, rei)iesen[ed

Lis the idt)] IA its truth in painiing. Alloalue 4:c0.1iotny is thus at

k, kkittIL 111 35;k: Lind LIIC jkl.CLISUrk:

1. 11:t5.4.•C 4.:13 Tliam.11.4ps Lind EPOS, ;111S0 1KEWCCIL LEIC ilCatIL

ancl. tEiis ApElart- ilt dual niipaskiickri cif prir•iikl.c.'s..

101 emini i.de 1.yri3114 ple:INL3rt

1 1.;1: Is L]I)I a in 3L1Lipl.e. [( CVI2 11 LILrealeiLl. eleelli inCipality,

CvUly a[CELLIIALL CyCly 1.[C1.113 d.CSLI C. It is What 1.1.!C

I ill, later ran, lc I? ra rir a re' Inv( "archive feve.i. -

Such is ike st . cric, .LE 4)114.T k..-ysirld cdlftgilig. 1 7 rCtIcl_11151try 1 Ile 1.3StleSq C.14 rp.owlirure parki.„ ink,

and I lkipOgrarkilie priming, in rAller v...ords, the 1:19.orious. UI-ti C5LlileJlt in Clic arcliivi2, by ptuti.1I4 forward [ht no\ city (.11

1:C.3 (.1 ❑C Sti itu.14.1.1 rc_si ....1.am42.,

first or all in lkitliSCIE, .1Eltt ilfrfiSrly its MIMI( VEX:aiikkiL is 10

burp •h4- Arichivc and tci incirc (lulus rciiiiing

pri 1.114' t I 1L]i It 0.4:01.1.31111111110.11

:11.11d CA 011111t..mwry 4)n. :skin :51Lb5trat a311 eXlel 101

1 11;11. c_

1 5'1:15;111, ill gclicrall, can Ellis SUbStratc L.:Awl:10r to wlial.?

Vir'liat CLI►-CS ITiran? rirrki[li•iSiClik, for CI:111111.11r,

tC‘rifir L11;41-1:.' Es. it nu a rchivc -

1 t Ttfr.r.ta alw;kys ti) Ix' po .ASible, Certilf m21) 101' the

alkeCO3kOr1 .31- -1.31 . [his ic.peCe [0 the diabolical Beath•

4IE Thil, IS ;31 all a171]s:;31ani_C. 1 -'3•CLIC1, In Massing, giNCS a Strik .

iiL At 4 he tiI31V •..)0.fLarrreigh. (1929-30], ;In C343(15[1.1.I:

k :ill ilk unn.ri- ciginihr-int, in its historic Al :1311C1 inivmprE.

d not like to be rernin.dcd, Trebel (Ff. thic c.rxis-

tepee or 54:A.LET35 t4) CC)L3LradICL Iht Si.)V.er7g111 goudness

of Goa_ .1100.1 proper J1,LI Iu.c fur 1111C

I iiiiained. Ll.r 3 10: LI1c1.1, in 1 he rye:5.411i Clliristians 7 for "Chrisrian

s •i t . n • c " (,I thr te. xt), irrvc0nril.thly with Goa, We 51T

11.1)W 1[1411 it Can Pls. - c-xcli I pate. God: el-if fOr sake, diabolical

en:it the existcnce rif rhr I )tneil. can AttrVe. At in excuse (.EntscAfide .ii-

gber.iy) buf (_;04.1 brc m exeea re Ar (i) kiml crrtrrr /hi' 417.1ge and

LI] ICbCili ,LII 1 him, 'pint ;3S, .IflL] 11.hiC 13tilraills:31 1 tail ur

;111 , 1 E 1 ngy, Jr c:in piny1 hi an.al.ngi)us sok ;A co , nwlic I .dicfnr

exon.crocion {di( st-lbe .r...grillsrewcie Rolfe) asignecl to hinn

hr world of t[1.12 .1"1 TV:311 ldtlal. IL CIIIICr words, the radical (Ie-.SE.111CLI,[1 Can d.gal IL be •e.r..]2...•fed Ifl ariu[1141" [ogic„

cint.1041:.clgc: Tewne4.•.c 0 • an. a Eli VC V4'E1it h 4:r1 pital i kg

c•cli iIL.1L Velki.Ch ruins ii or radically C011t•SIS it% pliwCf: r.LCLit zI r'dl

4:;(11. Iw (if il.('StrL1C11f)11 C;1.13 hr reinvested G11 I thc •

iodic:b., [he devil can also 5erce Kili.u.fifi-such is the destination of

thc Jew in the Aryan itit, :11. (E3rher in the same text, Freud pro.-

}]uses an interstirig uf. nationialism6 arid

on Which we 1:11.3011 lCI InCirnal.c 1 1.3day LaL.it ihvilliCh CatliLCIL possibly

•fficr 4114111M-1.

In a preliminary 5111r1t1. ;311E1 .rill EiEni[ing ourseiwes to this. nr-

ch.i.wizatiun of the ardlik.I L.. INC ought to pay attentlim

Lo a ddlL, LL LIS <onsidcr Col the 1111;1Chillk • 1(101,

iimiclidcul, i . Jl I :L4:13(fs LO rep.irsen I ihr (.1 61751;ei4 MelnilCkry as

ligIC.•flidi C111.1?1;e ;ILLS111 111;11111dy tllr ildryili• Pad (der Ti -r1 nfierbif ..4).

ThiN IN AS also prescracci .aiter 'Beyond

Plecuure P Ncipler thc. Irk in which Freud admits to pi,Iying

-the &yds ci e itocate.'" l Ii t.l.t'SCr141111.31 .5 iILCLLkICs several (1.3

that l•iiich ii tlic .1.1t]1.32; lyirrt' Pad is r4A1141illo1lcil

illc cArlicr ck-L;cription„ kIY /4..Cyr./19/10 cif alt: "St I'LliCIALTC .1 the 1.nych Lc

pv.i.r;(111 11111AnslAringaricl C1114:564Pning I hiSSIniiiReNotin

if.-anderblock. I attempted IAwl g agu 1E1 il.31a.lyZe, as CI OSC I y prissible,

,I hc relations bctwecri the inoitd 1)I Ardlivization, technic .;LIkty, I hile,

And du.at11._ 1 [ficd toEk.I1.1Ltit OW 1111.11k IL5g 111.15 10X1Cri .g.elideret1 1101I3

%Nal 15L11. ilIC inct:Aphyni.C4. 111 a5.51_ir.i.inct5 iII. which, it steins 1111, it

hrldl. Without i e the t itiesi inn.. I. fir un 1.a; eti at the time

(in pkrlirlliar concerning ttic 'Freudian concept (Tribe heretlitary

niuminie trace" III G.',P..irn.2g and DitIcrencc 197; 1_,Ierri.ture 294 .15, 1 would

cr

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till 1%S: W1111:11 411 r 44'S'I- S - C cFr I rim); pr ov i sir ', nal ly or definitively en-

crypted; they concern the archivization of its institutional and clini-

cal practice, of the academic.. scientific, and jnridico-editorial iispcct

of the immense problems of publication 01 Of tfiltiSlAtkill

whi4:11 we are acquainted. The %mord -acts" Caik designate here at

UIY L' 1.1u.• 4:C.1411.4:111 4.)I kV hat k kJ 1 X! rd I VC4.1 andt1i&- :If4 l live il SC I the

archivable And thy archiving of the archive: the printed and the

printing of impression. Whether it k a question of the private or

public life of Freud. of his partners or of his inheritors, sometimesalso or his patienis„ of rise pt.r5i111.al or S.C1V15111L• CX(111:1111 ,gt'S., o 115.1.'

I•I1erS, s kber:11111111S, Or [14 11. 1 1. 11:(1-111S1 111.1.1 1011a I AIN: IN1•13/1S, oldie prac-

iices Mill 1-1.311`5 111-Or CX:1111r1C, those oldie sip-called lLamil it• i •

situalion," 1.11c place' and Ills length of I lir sessions, associ;11.1011

3•t1Cll 15 •ree% oral, ill person, and in the presence. analyst,.

-vvidhout ill What Way hX.i Like Wl1. 1-1 1C c1l 11.16h

field IFCCI1 determined by a state oldie tediriology of COnlillthitiLa

11015 allki 011C can fircani or spei•ulair 1.1soi.it the

gro technological shocks which would have ma(le the landscapr

cif the pc•clinanabitie archive unrecogniTable Icrr thy past century11„ to limit myself: to thest. indications, Freud, Ills coniernporaries,

collaborators and immediate disciples, instead of writing

[ir letters by 11.1E10, 111114.1 11041 4114:Cq'SS i NIC[ Lir AT& - r - telephonic

redir Lards, portable tApe recordcts, cumputers, printers, fnxes,

iclevisions„ tel••otift•r4..iiees, :u alxvor all

I would have liked to devote my whole lecture TO this retrospec-tive science Iii ti1111_ I would have liked to imagine you the

scene of dim oilier archive after [lie earthquake and after the

- COripS " i )1 - its altcrshirit ks. This is indeed wherc 3h a inc. A-s

acil not aLle to do 1311 ZlCI:OLUlt CPI d1C St1I1 archaic oiganii.atioti

o• our colltxpiia, of illy time arid the SpaCe kith' disposal, I will

iititit ruysell to a mechanical remark: this archival earthquake

MA have its effects 1.43 the wondary recording, to the

printing and 11) the conservation of the history of psychoanalysis_

would have TranAiornied this history iron, top 10 hotinin th•

1110S1 inside of its production, in its very rt./mfr. This is an-

other way of _4:lying that the archive, as printing. , writing, prosthe-

sis, or hypoinnesic technique in general is not only the place for

stocking and ior conserving an archival& content (.../rhe pair which

WOUld C.XiSt III any C.asc, such ;is, without the archive, one still Lie

livven. it was or will have been. No, the technical structure of the

ardr iving Rrehive also determines the. StrliCtUre ctrchin.ihir

content even ill its very coining into existence and in its relationshiPto the future. arcliivization produces as inuch as it rcaiRls the

cycnt, This is a1s0 our Exlliticiil experience of tlic 543 • 4-•1111 C 1-1 EICWS

LlIC(1111.

that, it7 dir pain, psychoanalysis would nor have been

what it was (any more than so many other things if E-mail, stirexample, had existed. Arid in the /ware it will nci longer be what

I :Mid and Si) Many psychoanalysts have anticipated, itoni the 1110

1,11E1St rl)r cxall)ple, LxeaIILC 1•01)SS1111r.. Olic Could lincl

clues other than F.-inail. As a post:11 technology, the example un •

doubtedly merits mune privilege. First of all because of the majorand exceptional role (exceptional in the 111..51.0ry Of SC1C11TifiC proj-cts) played at the center of die psychoanalytic archive by a hand-

written cortept3.1LCIC111T- WC 1.341VC: yet to ;Usti

proCcyling this itlililcnsr corpus, in part unpublished, in part secret,

and perhaps in part radically ;Ind irreversibly dc .stroycd—for ex-ar„ pi, by Freud himself-, Who knowsP One must consider thehistorical and nonaccidental reasons which have tied such an insti-

tution, in its theoretical and practical dimensions, to postal CE ill-

municatiun and to ibis particular form cir mail, to ils 51,1hsttatcS, 110

its r.a...es IlLalky days to arriveiivcragr sliced: a handwritten letter

in another F.uropean city , ;1 Lill nothing is ever independent of this

delay. Everything remains on its scale.

But the exai»ple o• E-mail is privileged in roy opinion for a

Inc_we In IpOrtant alL(I obvious reasrin: bucatise dcetrollifC today,

cven more than the fax, is on the. Way to IA-andmining the entire

public arid pi ivate space of humanity, and first of all the limit be

twrcii an: private, ihe secret (private or public), and public or

the phenomenal. It is not c ci y a technique, in the ordinary and

limited sense cif the tcrrii: at an unprecedented rhythm, in (pas.)

iiistantane4MIS truinciltal pussibility of production,

DI IS1 1ntillg, oicult5ur v:11 ion, and k1f dest rue t ion uithr archive- musti n cieltably be a ccompanied by juridical and illus polincal transfor-mations. Then:. affect nothing less than property rights, publish-

ing and repRisiuctiori rights.. In r-egarcl tu and in keeping with the

dimension of these LorrisrurinatIons un<kr way, 6c-sc. radical and

killermiALibk tui irvr must tukc s1ot-.1( ind.av of 1.11.e

Is 4.1.thrlintic dic lic.chivc . of Freinclinn stud Ci)111

iT1111[1g rilr manuscripts of 12 1'CW' ;1[1(1 OF his 11.111 1111;11krn, th.e

11S111.- d :I lid correspor.H.Ic ❑ctLilie public:36.0ns or Cc.

publicaiionS, 1 kV. dr:ifrs and the sketchcs, t1Lr accniriEA thc-

iitacccssiblc, [112 notormus filierings or the Laprkuy ut . Congr<n... ea%

Tht-5c cla1sw:11 am! extrlordiiiary 1.vorks tuovc Emin mi. at

1pt-u1.1, in .I. Q Sarli tnti,ill orreleraT•rl 1.•&11.14)111. 1.11ICy 11.1.3F OSA' Mk)

a 1 1 1)21.54 ;II di!,I;Ilicc anon!: onci more (orrilvirnIFIC ED that which

separaccs Lis From itrchaeological digs (chat bizarre :1.4.-tivii3-

abuut by [be Juthor of Gradiva, to which we will 1 niErning

5[11-Iftl.y), i.10135 bL1)11.1.:;111 phikiVgy, 111.)J1L LiL11.111..1(1.{1.11:i a1f ihC Ei1111C.

from I 14) 1.Zi)1,enwcI .Li, or Cu B.Libcr, or 17{3.13k t he establishing iii

cli• hypInnill.C'SLC Vir itings of .AriNlodc by ers-edieval. copy-

[ !s. This is ancillwr way to say that it takus ;:rwRy from theadmiral& From the indtsputable necessit y , al3CI 11 •10131

I ILCulhicSIALIIL ür I hic clasmical philology which ism) [Midi

littn C [11;311 0610100', it'll 111 .1.5 5.11101.111.1.3 154.344:14,SC Li.) (LC LI11-

1■033 .1.1WEi uniirr io.'ay, Liti rirchivil It Sh011.11{1:1.1)0 11C.

all t[1:3l" thC Acchivni technology 710 longrr cletcr •

ininni, will ncvcc have determined, merely the tylx-FIT1Tnr of the con-

sci vaiiona[ recording, but rather (11C %Try arCinv-

able uve:Eit. ft coiLdiLions not only the iorm 471 ihc structure' Iliat

prints, tho pritItct.1 ul Clic priming: ti[! prmrstizr thr

p•intilyg, thr ionpre5Jiot diVIVI131L [11:1 1,Verl1 prinierl And

prinrrr. Thi5 archival technkint. has c.-.E3,11111.,:ni(lc:11 dim 4VhiCh

111 Nst even I ristiRIced and constitnicd. whattvcr slier wa5 as

awicipdrion cif 1 IV'

And [gagrcireJ, arelwec has also, ays bccui a pitlike..ik41 111tc cvcry

[gage', II EtOkrrl COI (ht . irltlurc. 'In put It ]Liurc

1 ....Am! is tin Icrnil. c•r :1 rchi .vect in The. (arm.. N.N41y no longri-

livcd ill the same. way. Archivable 111C2fiing, k also and i11 at3V;111•r

the structure that arcllives, ] with the

hum

\", L. him!! 51.17,pcildcd roy tlic (11101L1CIll. I -rt 11.1%

A.1.15111.11V Ft-111,1.1'k, Arid 111k 1S t11C. Cr1111.1:111 i:LPJ (1.1C ;II1

iing: this L'erlysric Fl t hi s {'.Yee-0119r, thus archival, nriodel i if ellup.ry-

chic rceordirig and memorization apparatus, dE.Is not only inte-

thc r.x.11iceph. of psycliuunalysis, lxuni, the 4c5ketel.re_r

1L1 1 10 tilLU al le:, of L w 3.4ehipsychulogy, by N....41y of tlir TrotrYmicr4 •

frong, in Ivdrii<liLlikr :111 thosc which ecHicr.rii fiar exarillrlIr r(TFETN*1.410,

celiscushir. recording (Ninder.Erhriii) EI1 tile two systcms (Ucs alit]

I'c.). 1111C Th [CC 170111 t Of Vievi (LeTic, ay Da ni ic„ anel cCi)lioritic). 'Lik-

ing into account air HYL.111i151.killy Of legions in dlie appara.•

ius., 1.104 intr.gratt:). [ht nce.r5Sity, jG1 iIrEc thy P-rydir

c)1 . ;1 Cell:Lin raIL1.ialr, Cc] lic_oftler 111.0tWeCE1 insidrs And nut

Awl with clii5 elorPecmie ogorside. thrit is to sal; also

hypothesis of o.ri Plteffle21 SILkil I ate, SUffaCe. or space withokii which

rhere is neither coli......tgliaLiou r registration, impr<s5ton 31.01. St311DIC5-'

Si.LID, (CD .1..11'511i1.5, rtinesMoli, II prepares tilt' id ca 01;11 pSyCliC

froth ineinury, 14.1,120191.W7S.ri fl (11111

miric=117- in WO ed1911.1711JFSir: tile insTigionon, in surn, PH.PS.e.11.1•.4.%

claw WI- have said LI iusl imirion'' (one colilds;iy "trtCti0E1") sCo

as to rnArk, right em In the originary ihr5bol1.i oi this prosthesis. 1

rupture. whic.11 is 'pls.( as originary with imture. The theory of p.sy-

cboorialvsis, (EKE] hecoincs a 1.h.e0f). Ube zi[ChIvr and not u.nly A

ilwory of ruciriory. This. du.cs noi thc ekCr11.11W'•

in r4'131:Li11111'r Ewirtcrigenoutis as I tried r.r show in "Freud and

the Scene of Wriligir: 811 ntap3nist ic trnditional mu( if contin-

ues in this disci.iiir.se r{.1 Oppose a inetaphy5icli lo the. rigorous con-

sequence or iiLi5 ptosthetiCS, that i5, lop:: or hyiMainnuSiS.

Thr 1.314_54[CI of 1.11]s 1r1 lrlar -MyfriC pad " at:i..D inCorpk.natch

way sucm.,in the Furrni 01;1 drive, to contradic142yen the

4:rin5ervation driwy, whAr vr'e ln-re ihe arehive dri ve. i5

what I called t Aker, and in view of a1L£ inrernal contradiction,

archrzT fel:?r. There Would indeed lay Ili) archive desire Ivithour tilt!

wirilum. the of a Ifu1gC1[41111.C$s N.vhich

Ctut•S 110! hinit iastll it s ;31.1, :Hid chic is the Ii ixii

serious, bcyontl Sir this simple Unlit c;d1cti finirt-pc.ss or imi-

tudv, thwrt: is no arChivt withcAll ihe threat cf t his dco.dh.drive,

this aggression and destructivii drive_ This threat is in:ix-rule, it

swccp$ away 41it luy,1C Of finitude a ]1.{1 111E: plc lad. URI. 11[1)03, 1 lie

0,111:1S4X1hICI)L.L1 Inighi 1.i , the

1.11E1005 cimisi-rvai Tril nithcr say dial it abil..1pcS th4:111, 1,1r111

alaukc !he E ca 1 tlinriension of the problrrn.

There! IA nkst one ;Ltdnye fever, one limit ur tine Suffering ofmemory among others: culistinF the in-finite, archive fever verges4 )II radicril

ILLet us encrust a second citation into the cxergue_ Less typographi-1.:tl diaik 1.114- Jlcxt,al?.. s_ii4.1„ it nonetheless still MalEltaLlYS relesVIICCIi, dir nip.JIC 1)1,1 0 1141 10 rrpctition, indrycl 1 . 1 .1 printing illthc tyr.„wf sort. Re4.-iirrent rind iterable, it ra rrir4. literal singularityinto lig urril ity, Again inscribing illWripLL013, it commemorates in itsway, •i•e•ilycly, a circumcision_ A ...•cry Singillar niatitlincnt, it isaLso dociimcni Of All .lirchliwc:. In ;3 JCLICTLILI:d 3L ICL.L44.sthe trace or an incision right or; the skin: mopc dial] one skin, atmore thrill oric 1111.- letter 4)r by figure. The foliaceous. strati-fication, the pellicular superinniKisition ilies-e cutaneou.s marksseems to def .) . analysis, lt aecurinilatts so many sedimented ar•chives, sullie arc wi !WM fight LAY L1142 Cp.idcrn3LS Uf . al bud)pr4)114:r. otlici..5 on 1hr SUE1S1 Late Of an "c xtc r lor " body. layerlicre he•ms 1,, slightly, as the a WCHWICI, 1 1 CTIEVIELL. 13 .k;

allIpSCS Of the abyssal rossibility of another depth chls.tiiricNi forarchaeological excavation,

It has., in appearanCe.„ primarily to (14) with a prware rnsdripi.ron.This is lilt. 611C cif first problem cum (ming the (joestion ut itsb•loriging tit archive: wlhirlt archive:" ihat of SIgIt1111141 Fruit]?that or the psychoanalytic institution fu science? WEirrc dons outcir;lw the limit? What i5 this new science of which the instituiionaland theoretical archive ought by rights to coniiiiist 1:hd 11.11.114

(104LICL1 4.:11LS,Sulitc:tillic$ rtt? with tELLISC ul 3Ls pa:sLII]LCd Ii_ t]I7tic r, its I irr, its patriarch, Frcud? J ❑liked, _T LliArt111•11:11ri 4itch„ Signiund's lather, ja.kob? This bring., its 1r1 rhr

•hich is always open, of what die title L'Fretirl's house -

means, the I ;rend M1tS4-13111 as a H 01.11e of Frcud,- the arikheion ofwhich we are tlit. guests., fly which wt spcak,fiorn which we speak.

Spe.3k, I /night also say: .,iddresSitig it. Thu af Chi% e 4..11

rtlr i.inglilar private inscription I will speak of has been in theclornain rim' several years_ One can havc. access io it 113 several

languages, beginning with its original in Hebrew. Public, andoffered for inwrptetation, this dotunient is lLniceforth accom-

pained, indissodably, by An C:sti'LlOrtliilary exegetical or her cur nett.tic a vpa rat ILS.

Tt is an inscription in the form 4_)f . a dedication. It wac Writicri 1i

the hand of . Jakob, son of R. Shclomob Freud, the arch-patriarch,the grandf3ther of vsychuartaly5i5, a I1c1 address-cd ttt hiS gun, S] Sc

1u111011 Sigmund Freud, on the day ofleis tilirly-filth birthday, inIt'll:in -lap din: sixth or 1i.11;iy, 1891 (29 P..:isan 5( 1).

A gift 4 .41irtied this insvription. What the father gives to the 5.41n isat mire a writing and its substrate_ The substrate, in a sense, wasthe Bible itsCII, I. "Book or EN)': Eks,- a PhilippsollA Bible Sigmund

had studied in Ins youth. I h1/4 lather 111mi...diet having

inatit: present 4A- it to hiin.; Etc restiliitcs it as a gift, with Lit."01.•

Icath•r 11.iudi71g. To 'bind anew: Lhis is an act ur love. (}f paiernallove_ IL is no less important than the text in Trielitzah, those biblical,liturgical, or rahhinical fragments which compose the long dedi-cation aJ)J carry in turn the thoughts of the father, On this sub-ica tic sp,..aks 01 a "Lww skin,- as the' English. translation or the

lelmcw says.Like some 0.1 you, I si.ipposr, I discovered die treasure (If this

archive, illuminated by a new translation and by an original inter-

pretation, in Yos41 Hayirri Yerushalmils handsome book Freurfs

Moses: Judaism 'croup:able and interrninkibic. 'i'his bock:ft a strungimpression on inc. My recruit cfnctivery of it gaVc Mr much to thinknhoni, inure than i could say here, and it has :iccornpani4.:4.1preparation or this lecture, So this lecture will naturally be dedieate.c.1, if he will allow it, to Yowl Hayim. Yerashalmi, 1 For a reasonanat will perhaps bccoine t:kar later, I will dare to dedicate it At thesaiiic tittle to m..; son5—and c'ecul LO the 131C1CLory Of 13104' rather, wholivas 3k41 Called,. ;15 1.5 'Lkitse lf, I [41Yilrir

!lyre is the art hived dedication that the grandfather or the arch-pat.riA rch 4)1 hoana 11; sn kob Frctid, insc ribed iin the I i bk. hr.gave, but tll truth returned, .forki neure 1 -lintier new as

say in French, for Ins son, that is, to thc 01 [lac patriarch

psycilOallalusi.s.. CRCS it with drill-Italic alga- t, as a caup

2. YI•f MAI:11116, Vc114i in II11S ei tar rrFLL {, %Vac 141 hayr lir en at this

lecli,nc_ AS he was !..i•k, he could riot prrserit„ and hip i1wn contribu non waslead by soineckne elm: the next day.

thelitre-it the c -ii u• hip bouk, jost bc[o. re the Hiller drionitti<effect of ;In Fictiun_ I [IC 4: X (C. 4114A 11 "1\ 1C141 f) g 1.1-0 wii hFreud," in ‘vhieli I will ret LI in .it length. I k sees in fink dediration

ticial episode:. and he speaks of 'Mr one. 4`artoniC;11 text of'lakub Freud at [FLIT disposal" POI.

SC} thiS iS 11111 01%1 any archive and :lust any moment in risecif the archive. bc.yond this c_"xcrgiw, tivc will sic hum/ Y4:11.1

int-wrW. Iii: character, lo his eyes 13 roix!r ly dicdiscovery.. of the reading. and of LIR! est:31)11A orient uf this "crucial'archive or which he is in S413[1 Lilt first guardian, the first reader,the lifSl.dixtur, the 1.1131 1 • le gititnatcI n the hodv of Lim ri[pLiun, we must 1.r.:;WL 111111cflinc: 41111 111 .

w•orcl% poiril, tric]red, IrFwaril tilt And thC riaditinnof ihe law ilawmakers"), that is to s.ay, towArci fh2T archontic di. -

men cion which 0114.! CI-Mid not have archives. but also, moredirectly, tow.' rd the logic and the semantics of . the archive,. ()Inicnior v ;1111.1. Or 1.114 4OLL5Cr•41160ii anti C11 . instr iption‘vhich pin into reserve ("more"), capitolize, 510a,

1.1. 111.1%i-iinlinity of laycr%., Iii :I rd .' iv al strala I hat 37".r.1 at once MAXI irk).

ivised, overprinted, and envelnpecl in •adL other. To read, in thiscase. requires working at geological or arclia•ulogital ex.cavatiuns.

mihstrates ur under surfaces, old or new skins, the 1 Iac!LuiLCs. L.]and livroinnesic cpidcrinisn bckiks penises--anil the veryfirst sentence rcualk, it lc,r)t lav lignre„ c the circumcisirin of the 14. 1-cher of psyelioanalyr,is, in the seventh in clays of [hr. (1.1your life." I will cite the transktion given byl'i'vriinhalmi while un-

1. I (if j lc I 1 4.1401.1111 malLr Ihi% v111'14111 on ("al Ifia4t 1))• tigure")21irr1 .11c-1 .01y talk WIEh le rushalini. •tio.sev.t:rill. morals lat e r in Nvx

▪ 5 4' 13- 111: 4 .1 el lc iLgaLLih t 1-cakild)1! 5.1:151.1 II I heYILI IL} ILICISCif ti I LEE Lrii-cra?

.w.01,00 I 2 r lit Mir Film" CM I.}f .4 4 11(4- 43144CiA4 1 )11. I Vre it d4 l lr• du•% :ma• more clearly Jura re of it to...144ii tli iruI rt) bun. T i iiS 3s yet an tither reasonIor illy w.al1iii41r. A.N it 5 crins •uditcm. tILU.I Ellis ilrd ECLI -

lion in rirrhigeJ1.1 gall1Crs 011 iE5 uEili ;MEL MAC!. ;LII 11%. 1114 11111:1 (1W11.114 14 illy,

(k1.1t rill t11{•Lk inn) clin.,ergr 'rowan! the muinent ("fa covrnanr, in rriulloi a renewed covenant, i5 It 33141.5rupe1 EU !CACI heir J1t hytat I Lc csui 1, s.if ci It IA IC 111411k Elli r gure of II I Lt Cu.% < :Lrit,its typin74' 11.-o, rrbcnt. in Ibc iyix. c.if an incisive inscripiiim, in .6.7rue ter, ;41 oneLriallgIllral 14171. rt4:111 rrent, Ilt44'ed..1

(lc-dining a few words, and then I will abandon this exergue, toT wild reLLIFIL

Sun who is dear to me, Sheloinoh. In the seventh iri die da P. of

yeAis Of your Life the Spirit or the Lord began tu itiowc youand spoke within you,: Go,, read my Book that f have wl'ittrn and

there vuill burst fur tcarl the willspring5 of understanding.knowledge, and wisdom, Behold, it is the Book ur Books, hr4)inwhich sages h v'c excavated and lawmakers lea] lied knowledgeLINA judgement_ A vision or Alinighiy did you Scc; you heard!

and strove ni do, and yoti soared on 111e wings n1 the Spirit,Since then the book has been mord like the fragments of the

tablets in an ark rtfirth nix', For the day, on which your years wtEtr

11 led to fivr and thirty I haws put upon it a er)ver of ncetAin andhakic called it: "Spring tip, (...) well, sing ye unto its" And I haveprewi ii Cl.1 I L tot you. ;is a memoriaiand t.rJ ar frAlindel [a 1 31IC3 11.0111a!

and .1 rerniitdci, the one ;Mid the other ;it OnCe, the one in theocher, and we have. perlivq, in the eamouly of the.sc /ti' o wordst h e o l c o r a v:11 iva 'Ma rwn Duremc•,. yPotnnermil 1-3 Flovc

from your pithier, who love ylOILL with everlasting love_jakob sun of FL .Slicluitioh Freid 'sic!

Ili (Li• cApital city Vit'1lE1.1 2J N irsa n C' May [11;i')1 1711

Ar•11-:.0 the' book %vas ustorttl" reirA the. arch-patriarch 01psychoanalysis. It was stored there in the Ark cif. the COVellarla

(J u1._ 10V,1 — 5 1- -Arca,ith.s tike in Latin, is lhe CliCSI, Il,t "ark of101/400," whidt c:4..1.1illai ❑ s the StOile -Iliblcls; but arca is also th•

cuil.board, rise coffin, chi.' cell, nr tillr• CLSECE n, the reservoir. 4

.1. The #1k %Lir, avith tILt rallwr of t I Lc latlici I L I Laly51% Stay withI or_ jnitycl, 11 Mows. ti •nti then, to their tents 15: tO • 11 1. Shyrtlyafter the !lei- of the Ark of the Covenant I1 LLees thf order to. circurnerw!lir tut c&I( In of E [ 161.

Pr cam b le

1 undoubtedly owe you at the beginning of this preamble, a firstexplication concerning the word if-airless:4)o, risks, in mytitle s lwing sonic:what tiiigmatic I became aware of this alter -1. when Elisabeth ItolliClifiCSeli asked me on the telephone fora provisional tiilc, so as indeed In send thin program of phis coarerence to press. almost a year before inscribing and printing on mycomputer the first word of what I am s.nying to you here, the It-.,.iponse 1 then improvised ended up in effect imposing the MALI

impr•ssion_And ill ;Al iJI1Statit, it 5.vzis as if' three meanings Enid condensed

themselves and overprinted each other from the back of my mem-ory_ Which were they?

Without waiting, [ have spoken to you of my computer, of theMule portable :.'yfacintosh on which I bare begun to write For ithas not -only l►ccit the first 5.1.11.11lratC to Suppofr all of EILCSC

On a beautiful nitnning in CaliFornia a few weeks ago, 1 askedmyself ;:i certain idtie5tion, among so many others_ Wii limit beingable w find a response, titi hLlc- rending on the one hand Freud, onthe other Yet ushalmi, and while tinkling away on my computer. 1

imsell wind. is the 1/10EL1C13t proper to We archive, if there issuch a thing, We 'WWII.' of ardiivization strictly speaking,, whichis. not, mid I will ci.inie back to this, so-called live or spriarlanen.usmemory (mnirne anawin,eszs), but rather a certain ilyix-}rn nesic and'prosthetic experience of the tech.nical strtimrate. Was it not at this

very instant that, haviiig written honlething ur othcr on the scrorn.

the letters ircinaining as it stnisended and IlIcutilq.; :.kict it 1.13C St

°IA liquid elk-inent, I }milled. a certain kcy io "yave" iindarn-

olge,l, in a hard .111(1 way, to proieci rrm rlis from being

erased. so as rri emu, e in this waY salvation and ,inderpiniry, to stuck,

to accumulate, and, in what iS at .orixv the sane Oiling and Some-

thing to iitukc the SCIII.C1101: available in this way fur printing,,1k(1 for reprinting_ lor r•prodUi DoeS it change anything that

Freud did. not know abinii the ounpilica Anil 1,viicie should the

moment of suppression or of repression he SiluAtecl in these fievenick ids or recording and impression, oT printing?

This €ciailensatiorh of three Ineiinifigs d thc word - impressiuli"

was only al& Cu imprint itself in Ric in at single siri Air!, alipar•curly in an instant of no doralion„ifter Much IN-ork, CliSfffilLilikl-

Cidus ihough it May have been, with Fretid'S texts, With certain of

1.6%, writings, bin also with theme$, with figures, with conceptualschemes that are familiar ro nae to the point or obsession and yetremain no less secret, young,. and sill1 to come 1{31 JELC: WI 11.113g, 111C

1raCC s 11154.:TIpLL011, c.1.11 ..111 CX1CI MilliStra(C Or WI 113C NU•1:311CLI body

properp als 1 .01 CX;41-11111C. this 1 4. 11CIL 111 1,11 ;Thy XIL El li[PIC [-fir Erie, that-

singular anti immemorial archive callr.I Cirrunicryirpt. and which,the,iigh never leaving you, nonictiteless has come about, and 15. no

1E-ss exterio r, exterior right On your bodY Propel.So what ate these ihrce Inca,. imp 1,0114:11, 1.15 a single instain, •on-

deusedl themselves arid overprinted each other, is lo say over-

phrast:dim:m ined copal, .oiher, in 'the v...-ord "impression- and 1]1e^

"Frendian impression"? And above all. of course, in their relation-hip to that re-producible, iterable, and conservative. production of

memory, t' that objectiv liable storage k:alled the art:ink:42

I. TELC inipiession is scriperoiri or ripergraphii..: tkit

(Nrer len-44;14A si.lys Freud thrrnighout his works) which'coves innik at surface or in the thickness of a substrate. Andin any rase, direcilv -or indirectly, this concept—oi Eathcr this

tor of the substrate—marks the proverlyfimciamenr411 assignation.

of u.iir Ubb-111, the pi Akin of the 11,1[11.1:11111.31t.41- C:1131 one imagine

an .archive without foundation, witlunii ,without sob-

stance, without 1411;)ectile? And if it were iforsof.sible, whot lhe

Victory 431 Sillkir atl.:!,2 What Of the future the substrate in its re •lationship Hi the history or psyeknanalySis? From the Skrich.c.r u 11 to

134-yond. to the Mystic Pad and beyond, there is no limit to this prub-

lerna.tiC of the impr•lson, that IS, of the inscription, which leaves a113.11 - k riglii rrrl i he. sUbsi rate. This then heconies a place of eurisig

11;1(3011, frt " ItISCY1[1110.11" or Of " rcc:43tElliflg: - .35 the Mempsychotogy

frequently says r Nirderhismeng (der Niederfchriff. •"location or regictration-) when it recalls, for example in The Uri -

cons-cious, at least three things:

a. the top_ologitrul hyputhesis or seneral psyc:hological Systems

C I L WI) IlireC")-- thus PCI-111its Line the 1..66114lion

betweco memory and archive—explains psychoanalysis wass.p.i,ken of, rind in part incorrectly, as a "depill-psychulogy" or an

-abyc.411 r.cy,-..heyfrigy" Tiefenpychi9/ogicrl. ISE 14 : 173h_ this topic has nothing to do, for the inoinent, at this trine, "for

the plerSelli " (1.3Llilirlirped i; I CLUJ.), with an anatomical point of

view MI Cc By stressing in italics yor the present"

(porAig4fig),. Freud ricarly wants to Ilcivr morn for what the futureof science Tnay !each us about this;

c, lastly. these hypotheses are nothing other, and nothing wore

than., .intuitivc ivreselitations illerawcAllitirchiargen), 'graphic. il-

111.1Stratil.th:i" akcor(hiig to ihc English trmiskition. ThcY QUI 0 '61: CIO 13101 . 0 Ilkan graphic illustrations" [Sir.:: 1.1 ; [75 .1

This problematic fir irnpreSC,ion is discouraging for those who

might wish to find in it a privileged entrance. Because it becomescontused with the whole corpus of Frcu trs works, whether it hasL.4-) 6_1 With (01.1(51.11VC 01 LlidLY14_111.1La 1t1C11101 11, 5.5'101. censorship. or re-

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imp int. IT inscribes an iniptcitin in language and in 4liscoursc.

Thr unknowably weight dud imprints it..44 . 1 r thus clots not weigh

only :IS -a ocg-ativc 4:lunge. It invoivcs thc. history of the cx.►nrmilt., it

inflects archive dtsirt ar fever, their opening on the knurt, their

depenticncy with respect TO what will come, in short, all [h al tics

k no edge Lind. 1111:3111.U.ry the prounisc.

that it is poss]l1lE. 1lOt in like this into account, forgetting it, effacing

it crossing it out, or °bleed ng to it. one h2s already confirmed% we

could even say cokintersigned (thus archived), "repression" or a

"supprcssion: This, then, is i,icrliaps what I heard without hearing,

what I UlidurStisii..1 without tutdr rstanding, what I wanted ob-

scurely to overhear, allowing these words to dictate tip me over 'he

tel•rimill-, ill - Freudian impression."

3, L'Fremliiin unincssinn" also has a child meaning, nrik- s.s

it is the first: the impression Icfi by Sigmund Freud, beginning

with the Impression kit in hutil, inv.:Jibed in hum, frarn Ills birth

and his covenant, Irom Ills circumcision, through al] the manifest

sr.crel history i.i1 psyclioanak.sis, or tilt- institntion anti of thc

works, by ....va• ()I tilt: and privAte rnrrcsporic•ilieu,

ink this letter Shelmnoll Frcid to Shdoinoh Sigmund

Freud in memory of the NigfliS or token5 of the covenant and to

accompany the -new skin" of a Bible. I wish to speak of the 1171-

prC111011 /cf .; by Freud, by tilt event which i„:arrics this family narnc,

th4.- Licari). rinfmgcttahle aim I incontestable,. iindeniiible if/Jive - cram/

(e% en And akil.4.-;111 for those' who (icny it) that Signnind Freud will

have ?near on anyone...after him, who speaks of hint or speak♦

him, and v..hn riiiiST Then, accepting it or not,, knowing, it or not, be

thus marke4I: in his ur her cuiturc and disciplinc, whatclp. cf it Linty

be, in particular philosupliy, nicciii.:mc, psychiatry, aiml inure plu-

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kit' able tea, thus one no longer has the right or the means

to (him tr, Nricak of this without having ken marked in advance,

in one. way ur another,. by Om •icudian impressiuo. IT is ilintiOSSible

and illegiliiitate to do so without integra1C1.1, well Ur 'Willy,

.Ill important way !Sr not, rcctignizing it or di•nyiirg it,

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patrutichi....e or or rnatriarchive, and one would no longer eventin- stand how an ancestor can sixak within us, or what SC- Ilfee

there might he in us CU SII(`.1 k. w him 'Jr lier, ill siieak in such1;1% 11.1. 011, tca kli or licr WiM it

We• ha•c airc.adly cricoinitcrC'd this alternative, voe will returnto it again: 1\105t raw ;Lily 14) %.vh.,-ti will have been predefinedas the Freudian nr psychoanalytic archive in genCralluadirlg, of iracrii-rinatioil, of clasuhcation 1ti h1tlI havi: IrCeil fe-

cciv4243 and c.cllt.t•tt:ti oult 4)1 tins t+iLlrwc unity is [bus pre-suppuscd? t )r r.atlsc r , Las oti• Hit thc c►lltrary right NI treat

thi• Naid psyclioanalytic4 Freudian art - hive according to a logic or..1 method., a historiography or a hermeneutic independent of Freu-dian psychoanalysis, indeed anterior evcri to 1 he very name of1-'reud, presupposing in another manner I hi: clusuie and I hci t i cat , ty „1 . t hi s 4;1) WILLS Tliis independence Ciill LakC

pre- Or ImiS111SyChilariahytii.: 4 With in Virithtlln ;111 C1C ' , lick. pro-j•C•U to init'gro.to Jana fornialiit.e what 2 minute .ago called theFri Ll{^litrl iinpression. This Lanni-al: to a INUAllbCf

iliosc %vim arc pariicipating 7u this conference or who share t h isfolli:crik, and not only, here and iherc, to the most en -Jim:LH

idr ih.

In enigniaric scum:, th.•hich will clarify' ii5e1lperiaps (perhaps,h.c..7ause nothing should lx Mire. here, lor esst!ntial reasons), thequestion of the archive is not, we repeat, a quenlion of Ike past. 11is not the iitiCSUOIL cif a (7.)m:9A dcaling with I he past that mightfiticaely lie al 0111 4.111)i1Sal or out at ;Air tli5pusal,Arn arc/Jim/He (oti-

i rev WM,- arc him . It is „i question of the future, the questionrutilte. ilu• question of Tcspn-usr, rif a rifinEliSC rind riC a re-sponsibility for tornorrow, Thy archive._ 1t Wt want ti.) kn114% whai

that will li•vc Dic- ina, we will only know in tillliCS tO r01111:.

NUL (Oil Lor ow Init in times. Lo Corm!, labut (in 01 •rrhaps ricwcr. Aspro.r.al inrs5ii11iit:ity is ;111 work in IlIC concept 401 Arcliict. and

I ICS it, rrligion, like history, like science it rII, coa ',Try Singulm -

experience nr the promisc. we MC never 'kir from Freudsaying this, :91,ics5ialiiicity dots nut trman flaC5)iatliS311. Having cx-

plamcd niVst.-.11 Cl$CwIlc•ci revs of Afar x, and even ifthis diVinetIOn and enigma -I ir., MC Lit treat itas establish.cd, 10 La-der if! F.:INC Cline-

l_-ter, we ought, perhaps, to formulate the concept and the for-in.al law of This niosiariii - Fin the iiilormin t aanw WE' 1i'

illustraic it while cvliking again one of the most stiiking inori•nts

iIi the &cent:, i1 1 11t:aV cay it in Decent of him. that Yet- 11911;11mi has.with Freud, at the end of his lx.)uk, in what he calls his "Nlonologue

with Freud," Vile must COTgie ILO the moment at vvhich YerusbalitiiS-124.111S. it) SUISpnli..1 ciecryilling, in particular evetvalukg lic. has saidand iLion t: up ti.) this tm.)iiit, lion) thc• r hi cad of a discrete sentence_Oine could he IcrnptrcI I o rcv rcI this (ktrcad ns the toribilical cordof the book. Ever•thing seems to he suspendrd from this umbilicalcnrd—hy the un1biLica.1 cord of the event which such a book as thisrepresents. For in a work un.tirely devoted to nit:Inc)! y and to On:archive, a sentence on the Iasi page says the 1 -1.1R 11-C, I t say's, irl tilt

ftii Lire tense: "Much will depend, of course. on how the very terensjeterili iind ,,•ienc• are to he Elainee PM], This icntcnce , follmv4:41:111 Allusion to "'MIK h fliiture work," and it a ggrav ated the openingof this Future, enlarging it accordingly, in which tile vet)! possibtirIN

fruitele-dger remained suspended in the conditiolial:

Profeqsor Freud, 411 this point I find it futile to ask whether, ge-netically rUlctit rally, psychoanalysis is really a Jewish science;that we shall know, if it is at riff knowable, only when mach

Cutnre work has ken donc, Much will depend, ut course, onhow the very iermskwrih a lid c.,rext(e arc to be del led. [100, Lilyemphasid

1 )rairiatic turn, 5Lrol‹v of thearrr, cm4p dr thaw- within coup- de

thicifre. In an instant which dislocates the linear order of prtsents,a scond coup de. rh6.itre illuminates the llr3t. It is also Litt' thundcr-

bolt of love at first sight, a (Gliti) Sc limuire- 1.11.py• and tiarnicrcncr)

winch, Lit a flash, LrJ tls llxrc will] ihe memory of the first.With another light, Orli.' Lief loliper knows what i.l]e beefs, what the

fen ce of this theater will have been, the first stroke of trine , the

first .4-r.roke. thief/YR', The first pctiod.

question or the a rcllitie rtitta.in5 the s:a1114: What crimes first?

%VIM efilliCS firlt? Anti rFCC (51114. 1 ?

AL IAA' end of the pm:I:ding clia1itcr,1lit: first CeJlep theiltre in

volving a '' urucial episude and a "canonical t•xt": Yerushahrii had

esrablished the extraorilinals archive sive 'nista ibecl in thy cx.cigiic_1 k givcii his rearltirs tltc unique. Lopy gi•cD. hill first oficturiird, key arclipalrialth t4.1 thr riarell, lakith

and yet, right on the 501:Multi- nFiLS new Skin," thefigara-ti ve- reminder of a circoincision. the impression left On kris body byLklc archive of ;3 dissymmetrical Ceti t: Mira Wir11013t contract, orarow/mit: covenant Lu Will(11 Sigmund Slieloinuli subscribed befc ire

ev e rt knowing how Lu Sign. - lunch lcss couillterSign his II:1111r, InNKr uniless tliirknt cif this insc 4161.117 en (thyme, in the

of arehio nornologieal event. under the new {kin (P•a look thatconsigns the new skin, WOUIldCd and hleSSed, of a 31C.s4. hurii i therele:ion:au:111 Arcady the words inllemlud to. .r tile licveliorn of a GLA.1

spcaking to hull In Ii IL 1.1 (" Within you") cycli briore he coUld Sibrak,giving him to understand, i4.) 11r.;1.1, in truth to read or to decipher:"Go. rcad 111y Rook IliaL I 11.01 16. c ve-rittrn."

Giving us this archive to read, offering it to t..15 in the course of amasterly cle.ciplicrinent, Yerteslialtrii i in turn, J3 iCA 115 less Ii} girtthan 1.K.P pre Ilk acts a bit like Jakob, who does not give Sig-[intik] his, .h.ible brit ruber gives it back to him. Kimmins it to him.in giving us this ilocuencot to read, this UAW scholar w;1 1.E5give back to Freud his own compc 'nice, his own rapacity to receiveand thus to read the Hebrew arS.Scription. I le wants above All tOmaku Intl] C0111ns it. Because FUCtid„ Arid this is thy (IcClared aim'Eer ushal in i's 4.1cintinstration, ILIUM ILLVC khoWn„ from a yoUnE, ;Tr,how to I {-.Ii I file dedication. I le might, in t tias.reiiirricc, to have con •Ici.sed belonging. thus mak ing his f T•hrew culture puld Or doing5,0 ilkOre clearly than he did. Yertishalmi recalled all Freud's denialsc)r, this subject, -concerning his own family or ltitnselI (al] emanci-pated AbriVii.ro.? he clailtietl, all VI rairiiins! and -.Alio retainedof Jewish Like Frciid"s father, the scholar seeks it callSigmund She-14m m/, 11;104 01 the COliCILARE by ectablishing, that is tosav, b• restoring. au- covenant, The. scholar repeats, in a way, the

sl us e fat the father. He recall s or he repeats the ciret1InCiSiO11,it . II it One and the f]1 her Call only dcill....1C01.1r5e3 .11)Yfiguri'•

After the first, a second ((nip tie Iiitc4jrrr. it the nvoliicrit 111.% 11

t►drc .1111111, 1A' 1111 Eh` illiCarliteStalik 017 r Vcal L 54;1101a .1

'Mt in an apparently iniirC addresses or rather 'ne-tt-rids to address Professor Freud, in truth Freud's ghost, directly.

That thr ymisition dicii is more filial, that it 11112(lik5tS the love andt 11C TC yea of a son, in no way contradicts the miittition of thepaternal gesture-. pQssibly it confirms and relaunches it eaabiane. A scholar addressing a phantom recalls irreci riktls theopcliing of Handel. At clic spectral !On of thy -drat] father,Marcellus implores F loratio: "Thou art Schuller, tprakc to- it,.Horatio," I hive tried to show elsewhere that though the 4:11aA$iCalscholar did nor believe in phantoms and truly would not knowhow to speak rd therm, Chen kirbiddIng himself' to do so, it is quitepossible 'hat Marcellu$ had anticipated I he coming of ti schularfire p.fure., who, in the future arid 7io as to COnCrive of 1111Cflame, would dare to speak to the phantom. A scholar who woulddare to admii that he knows how to speak rco the phantom, evenclaiming that 'his not only neither contradisis 314311- his schol-arship but will in truth have conditioned it, at the price of somestill-inconcervable coinplication that Jnay vet prove the other one,that is, d ie i hantam, ELr Ix COI J . C.1.1., And perhaps always the 130.k-roadphantom, that is, who is in a position 110 l'PC correct, to be provencorrect —ancl to have the last word.

"F),, ir and most JSi gL,Ly esteerne.4.1 Professor .Fneticr: so begletter. An intensely filial and respectful letter, indeed, hut all themore bitter, cutting, MerCileSS in the rciortiadi,une 'would say Miff-

atroiis in the (11.3 .016101g, if th.c other were nisi dead, and thus inftcutely inaccessible in his all-powerful vulnerability.

These thirty-odd pages are not only to be classed as fiction,which would already br. ;i break with the language that has domi-nated up Lo (ins point in Ihc book., that is, the dise/mrse of Si.holar-ship, the discourie of a historian, of a philologict, of an CA. Kill on

the history of Judaism, of a biblical scholar, as they nay, cl ng tospeak in all objectivity while basing himself on ancient or new ar-

cl-nycs—and the wealth of these novelties has to do 1-111parttc.ul:l r

With the fact that certain of these cl4N.:11111CIUS, 111)1.ii IL(JW hardlyyis ihir or Li Liccu411)1.e, scern or pri ,eatc, tiLy•4: been El CV,' I y inter-preted, ncwiy translated, newly illiuninated from historical Or

Iyll ilcFlrtiic:aLviewpoints.

No, this fie:tirin has another originality, which sets the fictionalityof the 'Monologue - as if or a4n1c: the apostrophe is Addressed toa dead persou, to the.. historialt's ribrcCt b.t collar' spectral subject, the

vutual. CH -I11.4:1 ]tae 1..1f a sort of Ora [CRC!. A ill-1 1.11CA .

rChilii:C elfcct. In LIB very Jyc(i1i11, t his apostrophe cm idles 1 he cor-

pus it claims to treat but which it enlarges and of which, in fact, it

is hencerorttli a part. At the end ol 2 t ight discusAion with the phan.

tont. according to the intersected rult.'..5 4)i ilsychoanaiysis dikd of (lie

Talmud, 'in the spirit of ir-didaktri,," t he signatory 01 LILL: book and

of the lettel ends by ititcrrogniing the specter Or FT Ckld

Wr will (writ this, Fri t- the innineni, ii•e say the "book - and

ihe "letter" because if the Ictt cr is apparently a part of the book, if

the "Monologue with Freud" resembles a. l.or chapter of the book,

L:131 also note two other SURICRill al. $ingulaiiricS aboLII its rela-

tionship to Clic book WhiCh, itt leas( w_coi ding (U the cdikuriat Con-

verilion of it% bibliographic a.n.-hivization, contains it within itself.

In Ills ides( place, this fictitious "Monologue - is heterogeneous to

the book. in its status, in its proret, in its Corm; it is thus by pure

juridical fiction that such a fiction IS, in dreet.. bc_PUJILI ill the Sallie

sign(',( by the Sa.1111C author, and ilia it i under cighl

" Wit - 01611i " (nonlictionak ntillLC i Elo•tik: nor ril-PbTAIMIC FIEFF

I Lt Cf;lr',') in the bihliographic catalogue whost classical categorws

ATV fOk at The beginning of the work_ In the second place, this

postscript of sorts retrosp<ctively determines what precedes it. It

dot..: LI ill ;3 Ice Lsive lash .L0E1, marking it iiideeci with an CS5C.111.1111l

indecision, namely the urliliilici1 Opening or the future, WiliCh

mikes the IN4 )n "Jew" and "sLictic.C . indeterminate at he VrTY

43w—or in a ny Ca54! CC.T4 ICS to their indellertllination_ 'LlinS one

can just as well Say that the entire book is in advance cc: ntained.as

it carried away. drawn in, engulfed hv the abysmal element of the

'Monologue." It_PE tii 1L b..: 15 it COnstitutcs a kind of !twig pre •acc, al

exetglie, a preamble, or .L foiewoid, The True title rjf l lic ima, its.

tovist :1]1]}1-opriatt- t Itlr, its 1rLIIii wrH.Ilel indeed EM' Afrmokigue

Freud, Let us note this ;11 least on account of the archive: to recall

that there conic I be iio arebiving without titles (hence without

names anti wilhon1 Lhe archoritic principle of 14,183“131.11at L011,with

1.:15,VS, 1.1.1I LULU crilcr of . clabsific;itit ,n 2111.1 O hicratchization,

'without order and williokit crl lte•t, ilk kilt.' double FICIBC cif thIC WIA fa).

fly 1111C- CL113 FM' t di9.1.155iOn„ but in I }le prCACTIVIC Of

the reader th a t we are (01 - God knows who as fer1/i.4, third party or

wiincss.. Freud Ls no longer created as a third person represented by

Iii:s written works i pilbl iC ant I privair writings., clinical, I. [icor criCal,

or 21.1t 01110g Ca ithict1, in5titurional Or no, psycho:Lir:46e and

cal, scientific or -novelistic"—heetnise slerushalini's entire book

(II LT TOD Eit I a hoQk by Freud that Ile himself wanted to present as/)er hint; Aft.w.c..r„ raaJ hit forisc hcr RurrrUtt, While it n 11 a

new ColiCcpt ui trutla, d14 is, kinder the 31;1111C of 514 U iCal truth: .

a 1ruLIl that stliolArS hip, histo•iography, ;Ind perlliips philosophy

have SOFTYC ciilficulty chinking through). Freud is thus no longer

treated as a witness in the third person (rerstis); he finds himself

card (U wrirriol; as a second person. A gesture_ incompatible in prin-

ciple with the 110111.15 of Cla.55K.:31 ier ar fie di5fol..115,c, in particular

will'. those of history or of which had presided uvrr tlic

C;1311r IN MAC 011' 10 this point_ In addition, the signatory of this rnono-

logic.:11 1c1 ter All of a sudden proposes to this second person, ...dm jS

at first addressed as "you" arid not "he, " to speak in len/150f "'We,"

And as he recognizes thin this. other does not have a true right vi

reply, he responds for km: "[IL what i5 :11 issue here, indeed hat.

I stakc. Tht.rjoi - cbt•c.au .5o all -.11ong, ...ve both liavc, Jew 's, 411 1 ) rcrita

ill speaking of the Jews I shall nor say 'they.' l shall Say I i.vtt: The

distinction is familiar to you' 1811-

By definition, because he is dead and thus incapable of respund-

tug. }'feud can only acquiesce_ cannot rduse this c.oinaninizy at

once proposed ;.i114.1 le can only say H yci" to this covenant

into which he inns( 'enter One more IOW_ BCC:111NC he will have had

to enter it, already, tevi rl or h Ie..g...t day's a fter his bit (h. .11,froatis ram-

tdowitr, thisislhe sitilat ion of absolute dit.,synimetry and heteronym y

in winch a on finds hillisclion bring circurneised after the sevrinli

day. :tL1d cFrl hC1 rig [lila& to Cnter into .11 .Lovc pant at a Inomeni v.1

our of the 4[1LICCLI.1111 that he fC5pood, sign, or counccrsign. 1 lure

again, the .1 rchivr IJlarltt4l once in his body, Frencl hears himself

recalled to the indestructible covenant that this extraordinary per-

formamm engages talc{ say 'we'"—when it is addressed LEY a

pJi,{(Lions 'Jr a 111.CW brA [1,

iLct X15 ikotc apt le,154 in parentheses: the viulcllie Vf thi5carniniMai

dissymmetry remains ar once. extraordinary and precisely, most

cotrimori. Il is The origin of The -common, happening each time we

address someone., each time we call them white itipposing, that is

to say while impoiing a - we.," and ilius while inscribing the other

person into this situation ot an at once• spectral and patriaiLliicnursling.)

Evel•thoig happens here as if Yr.:rush:Anti II-141 decided in (kink

111. Ci reurticke Freud, ac if lit. fell ;1E1 Obligation yet to corrie ("T shalls;iy '') an. red Kiln-law Film lay ti.gure while CO n Fi the cove-nant, as if he felt the duty. in truth, to repeat Jakob Freud's gesturewhen, in 211 in t raptitLU at 03 iiCt: OLItSILIC ins.LciC dig: hook, rrghirtJrr tht: Duuk, in Inellizah, he reminded Shclornoki, In the sevesithEIS ihr day s 01 the yerirs of your life the Spirit oldie Lord toim:42 you and spoki- you!: Gel, read in my Rook I hat l havewritten _ . - 1711.

(The memory witlickto memory of a retL.1]rLs everywhere,WhiCh WC: ought 10 dchatc with Fretid, conicei wag hit;

Eapid 51...LiCI1LCII.ES oil this !MbICU; it i 5 4_1c. orly the question 011- theRinghiar Ardlive naincd iSit ITC Although tic' ...peaks of itbk•re ;Ind rh ere from FrelLd's 431 . from Jones's prim of view, "(crush-.ihrki does nor place this L11;31 k, at least in us literalness., at the centerof hiti book 6—and the enigma of circumcision. notably in the greatwiir 1)ctv4.ecit Judaism and (..:Iiiistianity, is kitlite.• ❑ ftrn that or itsliier.ilness and uf all that tkpeittls tin tin ,. Although I belicveEiti t•ction to l5r irreducible, in particular in the rereading of Frt.iid.irreducible notablv Iii thAt of castratinr -L I inusr put it aside here. notwithout sortie regrEt. along with that c.k• phylacteries, those ar-chives of skin or ikarchnicrit coverctl WkI I3 Writing that Jewish IRCIL,

hurt Lou, and ni.d Jcwish wt/111K- 11, carr y dose to Elwit oil theirat Eli •ti I I7rir fiarrlu•;1tI: Fr-ge5f /312 t/ IN* I ii /1.1 41 11 4e ire eartfl. FLTEX

(lir sign of ( irri nrici si( kir i th ;:l bring -rigir1 -0.r: litre a raaer+re•Jt h atthis time defrrs not e•xl CI C. the detackunc.nr and the um tyi liga-ment, of the sii104 atc, arid of the text 3i1l3L1Ita17CO1lSly_

In this deliberately filial si.etir that Vci tisha Eli has IN i I 13 thic pa -Tri.irch of pmerlinanal•sk, the rpostionlx is 1;11.1,114•l1ed 11-r13113 tiLE:

Thc cif 11, lhowcwri, taken up hum 5c;cral [mats ofifai-o. Frill!' .1 11141114k -II Ex.II1 I t3f I. 1.11a, Lt L'( 4.1i1{11J4.1 big fokAir (Ltrrt

fovrii) lot memory anti the kraditre eelationsthe servitude in ant1 Illy exrxhis front Egypt (wbctCIrCUnlciki fl v,as an in-

digcri41,3% pratiice}, Nom ;I nunc. Itluourril Immo 4111eici.v, Lircutnri‘i4u, i, Ihe

51,11w-iliac Ihf th.i. cam rrition 41 1 rhc Ihc FF rinaa liwr Father.

sition of the father, the father of the dead father. The other speaks.IL 3 S utIC.11 thus in sccn.us son has w the lather. Sill.r.ech corlIcS.

IMCk r,F 1INC 142.1.11dratlIc.- 1 . - SpcX01.priu•rils,. in Fre-rich la pa role irifienr:

As Act of speaking :1111.1 as right to Trcc'h. Wrr hy is this monolog 1.34:ClCa r 11.• not a iliOnülngiic or a sritilotiu,yi Because it plays on theirony of prtsenting itself as A "Monologue with " ? Because morethan one. persuil Speaks? Liikdoubtedly, but there. is LUDIC [hart the:

01111LIN:r_ ThCre ES the Fig if LI]: 54;114 1.0/V Cif dic

is hot alone in signing, Far in(Frn it, bc is iibOVC all air firir to do so.I le speaksfmr): the position of the othur: he carries in himself. thismolithriiree r he bears the voice that could be that of Jakob Freud,namely the arch - patriarch of psychoanalysis_ And thus, in the!lame: of Jakob, die voice ul all the arch - patitardE 1.11 history, in.Jcwisli in particular, for examplcy thu.,c u1Lra not only ill.scribe tlicir ill I lie coy-cm:1M at the inorncnt of circumcision,and chi it•ill•C than nnce, litr.rnlly or by figure, but do not ce.nsebe surprised and to remain skeptical about the possibility !hat adauglitxr could speak in her own name.

havt it3ST alluded lo ti Lc last N:41_1.1:1.t that the signatury id thisinu114,10gLIC With01,111 re5110115C atitlill:N•S to 1 :retid's [111;111MM, This

rutiiiic ,.t is farrird in a titicoion; we JIM:St distinguish between theone and the ottkr 1-kere. the reglicst questions on the subject ofAnna "your Antigone," says Yerusha.lrnk in p3ssing, Yerush-almi, who, deafly thus kkiktifying Freud, hi spacer, with Oceli-pvs, thinks perilap —1Ni -hap a i m [his Will s1.3111-1CC to tic - LIC41111531.

'LTC his own tclationship with Freud, as if 'hue were pi)Ssibi Eycvcr bcuomi RIZ lipctlipils's Oedipus. in 1977, An3ia Frenfl +Ara%

invitee.' by die f lebrew Unive.rsity cal lerusalein to inaugurate an

endowed chair carrying the name of her—long dead --father. Un-able DJ shr toi)—she slic too, a wintrn stnienient, II.

ochcr documunt, 1•CfLinb;11.3E11 inlet-SFS Wilh pas -

sion , A nna der l arcs , awning other things. that the accusation! ac-rorcliikg to which psyel -Kilialysis is a "jewish srie.nee," "under pres-ent circumstances, can serve as a title of honour" 11001.

Yerushalini asks himself whether 111L1S SCIICLCILCC ibitrikt.i by Anna

is ILILICCd iigned by AMU._ Asking himself this, kir asks bis spectralinttiluctiiiir Ike iisks himself (of) his speclicr W.1.31[1111 First liac•asked hin-i5cli this) if his (tauglitcr spoke in her own name: rls ir

doubto_l ihat (laughter,. above all ilic daughter of Freud, could

Spell LII tiff ty years after the death,

;411c1 :il -oove all AS 111 hC: 4V1S114:cl, Wei l l 1.4:1:11 C1 ly (i1 secret. which lir S:Lys

Lac - %%quits icF kccp, that is to soy, to shirt' with Freud, 1r hr alont: insharing with Freud). that she had always. spoken in the name of

Fier hither. in t he nil OF the. 1:atlier:

ln I %vill liI lit myself further And Lac 1: 1:1ffiCILt if you

answor only one question: When your 4latiglitur conveyed those

words co the congrcss in Jerusalem, thus she' _Talking in your

11e419,10

ici[ Mc!. [ proniise I svon.`t res.cal your answer

to anyone. 1. 109J

These are the last words r]f the hook. Everything seems to k

scaled by this ultirriake signature i r1 the. form. of a promise...Secretly

Lout visibly :, sheltered by a secret hi: 4.4.ants manifest, by a secret he

is anxious to Make public., 'knish:11nd wishes. that Anita-Antigone

had only been the liwing spokesperson, thr faithful interpreter, the

voice bearer (nine to supporther 1Lear_ Tat ._er and [IF repesernt his

word, his name, hi.s belonging, his thesis, and even his faith. What,

according to Yerushalmi, did she say, then? That in spite of all

Freutrs strategic tiCflialS Idell.egatamsl, in spite Or oil the pollitiLal

rrefillAtiCIII1S he exprcsscd throughout his life concerning the UM

vermil (non-Jewish) essence. of ryclinan-ilysis„ it ought to honor II

self Ear being Ile wish, for being A fundamentally, essentially, radi-

cally Jewish science, Jewish in a differnt sense irnin the anti-Semitic

kliir.'galiOn, W111112 Vea ling the "historical trim IC 01 anti-Semitism.

It S.C.CIM Lk) WC that Yetu5h1tliiii'5 111c ors :YeltiaciL:cs I1C1 C with

h ;We ing t SC] 1.t1.1( it k rather virtirldal St ;11.1.r.S ...LI id

.1 paradox i cal 11.10v4.'1111eill i( ISA LC 'Wilt 40 111 1101 wh ;ii LI ;IS ' ,ARIL Will

ban- been Might 10 or shotrid bc Jri the future, 11G1.13Yely that psy

eluianalysis should in the future have been a Jewish science (I will

Furtn - it ill a 11101111Cni t.t.) this temporal niodalit0, in a sense, admit

wind) is tadiLally tlifferent. lrcIuL that of tlic anti SCJ n it IC

ICTIL3i1Cbh(.11, but whicli would bring to light., 0311C 11101rC lime, 41111.11

ACC4111-Cillig very Freudian gesture in its style and tradition, the

truth that cii.puld be carried by the anti-Serniric unconscious.

Wc will return to this tiucstiuti ill another form momentarily.

1 =LFt ri le` nine bring, I will pull from this %%Ai a single interpretative

di mail, the one that concerns the archive_ What happens to the

status uf the archive in this 5i ttlat \Veil, the day when in aikaL.Fsolincly exceptional, iinpre.c•acnted,. unique,. and inaugural

1011, indeed 4_311C,." thAt is incompatible the Lif ilait .:k111.1 the vC

'Rica 1.4 . science... oririgj'appj-, of istur irt , taI 1.31 1 eCir7d. inder41 of [111.i -

10S111:111y in the West, the clay, arnl horn ihc !foment when wienoc-

prc,seriiing itself as such and tinder ihis name binds itself intrinsi-

call's. not only to the history of a proper name, of a filiation, and of .

hULIINC, !WIC Frctid's house, but to the !Lame and i ❑ the law Ora

mil.iu111, &A' a people , !or Of .3 religion, here psychoanalysis as JC I.Vnill

scicjicc, !hi!, W4p1.11141 11:1Ve the C1)1115.C411.11.'nee, aiming others,. of radi-

cally transforming the relationship of such a science to its own ar-

chive. Arid in the samest roke}, having kept an e-swritial account of

the singularity of an aritheion, this would transio]In tile concept

of science niul lIt': concept 01 the ardlive. lit the i.1.1.to ILI IT-

of their ciincept, a seielice, pli .ilo$opliy. theary, thcoreln are

or should he iyarifiiiririly independent of the singidnr archive of

!heir history, We know well iliac these things (science, philosophy,

'henry, cu..) have a history, ;..1 rich and complex history that carries

ibc!in. mid prilidUC 4:5 tilEMII in a diousand ways. NrVe know we II ilia(

in divcisc and i_oiliplicated ways, proi.wr WIWI and signailArCS

count. Fit Li die structure of the theoretical, Philosophical, scientific

statenie/Lt., and even when it rnnre rns history, does not have, should

no in principle have. an intrinsic and essential need for lite archive,

and roe what binds the archive in alL its lornis to Knot: proper1113111.1C ui tO StfrIlle. hotly [noricr, to 5L/411C (141.11►:11141.1 ear 11,11101L-11)

t 10Ji, I.41 11X1VeliA17tS, to secrets,. It IL15 ttiu NUCh iltN41, in any caw, in it%

rclationship or LII Laa MAY- — .La the classical !wrist- of the

K iln, Rut as Fpoori a s une sp+.2a k s of A Jewish science, wh:i ron e's

understanding of . this word (and 1 will back to this in aninstant.), the lirClik't LICCOMCS a founding moment for SC irlik€ ;1.5

-such; not only the history and the memory of singulai events, cif

ext-Joplary Firorr na.MC S i lAnguages and flhilti.{111.1., bti tllc C.LeFISI•

(LOFI in an anVirion (whit.11 can he an ark En a lemple.), die consig-natinn in a place of relative exteriority, wheilier it has to do with

writings, clocuirwrits, gar ritualized 11./arkS. WY the body proper for

45

[11 1:".1:1crericl. lir cir•oLlin.ri5io17). Ai •ksair r.rmilkilig It-04tok i rig scriolusEy ilic fitie5tirin vi hethcr s1 scicnrc can depend

5oInct1ing VA.. ark- ilvEib,..ra.k.tly"sc.rfficl.13 I]kC 1 611:1113LCILIIIML- LI) CICNigE131C: the 151.3.Ct 1.11.01.1.-1c111.., 3 phiCc 11L.Lt IS lisc IS 1.3.1 ob] cniatIC, licLveccri "IX ti pi! c

I311.0 4.-167,14c:11 with IFITL11.1 .1. 81;1 Oly 7.4:11♦•101clits C1.11

quit ply 110d Fcl 4•-. 1SEC11 .011 tai rte llie 011.

castration} To explain she genesis of anti-Sernirism, inAmely„ the.icalousy with regard bl.) a pc-01a which presented itself, he says, 21Athc! cd ulLkA suit vi Gud. 1:•cud 1115 Aids°. titu

(h.c: duo. tuts. thiciLl11 • 1 on) thy I•ui 11 11.1. Eric thEir CH1:11.1hiSID 1 5y a

accor(iing to him, always recalls areaded This

5CCM5 IC.55 interesting. in any case here. or less con% iricinp, (Elan theinaitner in which Freu4.I characterizes the i.iup.ressiart which circurn-•i&iLm th4...,t- who ilfc 4JIN.igrcc.;11b1c, Lin

carirry I 11.rlheittlifrAll inlpressiDn' 1. ..CE 23;9 I]. (1 1,CC4i ast.volirre rri 4•1114) 1• 11, ,in(1 clitnol go into it here, (ha( ench time die %vordevdrcitniin5 Appears in 1-"reliCI'S ICX1-and no( onlv in The essay ofthi Ridc. 1 Da .4 litdieimlich-uric can localiZe an iincoral rill:1.1)1c. un-{lc/Ad:Ability ill [Ile ;•OcLot7]allii2 [he co3.014T1!;, []LC lc 11,61,1 h ordcr

EFic iliseinirric and of . the Or !i•L;3Le-111C:[1tN; .1.111(1. I I)C.

5:1.3tle• II IfILC, 1E1 illSE :IS Sigilii1C.3111' (11 FiVid•L'gprr_)

YCI- 111S11.111111 L111L1•1.31ACIlly FhEnks , ;Hid [AS 11E34161 v.CCITIM hi an'' fascto ;link iit:11kolivrati11g. t E 13t 1 s•y{.110.artaLysis iat fewi51N scie3i.ce-NCUI3E, ILO ;31.33I 1:0( it 115 :115 !re[1!,Ft. 1 5 .1(.1114).9ing till

1.1-unLiiii. " cucvia.1 ui t•atiing, lic 1.pacs hiniscfil c111 an HILILiVe

!:.C.1.135•CLIIL1C5 a[1_11...11C (tlIC 0].1.1C 5L 1.31131i1_31. OF 11.3113111.31.1LC Er:11.111.1.0D% SOIL1C

111114'S 1511ElliS111{'{r. 1 n :lily 4:35• /lic 1{- ;15•T4ILiS 0'1/4'11 clrrrmnstr:3-Ilrhrl poini where it Nei.111. 11(p

The 1kiliCiarliC31.1:11 queslion remains withour responsc. VVit.bout a e-•5[301.1 se SKI liar[. 'Lrush alJlti CICarly this (0 coincFbrebori Ff C LIILISL 5;1.1, I L UWE! 113IL1L, did L

and ]11 i[Jut.11.1Lii.1.1( lh;IC 1}syClily..1.1k;11 5.siS

shoilli.1 hi 0011.0E _ .

OcIlig a 114.-Lvihli A LiclfrJ1177i.11iv42 lay

7. -Fcrner hat linter den tte R, durch sick' die ..ludcuichic dcr whlielbsailscn, ualtimlicht0) Einar uck grrmiLlit."

'Add' iic Vb♦11311.1 .1310.14:11. CleiCi'll1i11C 3CLCE1CC4 1SSIC1110•01C1.14EiC.

;1.11, 1111(` r sscrirr .n1 .1cwlislincrs s, if r34 JUNiaism •

It goes wirhotit saying, if one could put it t h is way. that Frenti'sphantom does not respond_ That is at Icast hi.)w things appea.r..Butcan ibis be trusted? In promising so..•rci_y for a '1,1:13tual response

kccin ,14-111 315•113y5 kCCI) LIS 11•11A1i1:1.11g, the

Fignator3.oi thin. Ex` iinclerstcxnl that Frcuil wouldnever say LII pliblik!, for exarrinic in a horik and in 1.5.41:11 is cicstiltod

11) last(.F1]I piihlic archive„ what he thinks. in 1 ruill seerr:tly, like themonolugui ST s.Vh.0 Says - INC.." namely, yes, psychoanalysis is ill.-

deed JC1•4011.511 Es this- nist intAdult:Alb, whai Etas aireadiy,in Erinizac, uficl/ 5tiggl.-•SIC 41 ? Ts this not what 1Ne has already lEttil .

r111.13Td iIL rC1111;11kS., CnrrListc•r1 to Estrus, .r.ow•igr]cd in a LInati.smid•

signs ilia( Yertishalmi has inventoricd, classed., put in order, intersprc.ted with unprecedented vigilance and jubilation? But at the endof the book, thc iiioctologinbi who saw.; says he is rea(ly Ft)icspcet the 5V.:P1:11., &CA- pcilui11111 the 1- C•9111)31.!ii.'.

!kit C1LC ph:41101111i 01,5111 mouth, (Linda murmur in car in

1 5 r kv:itu.

NOZIking eeTriS [4.) ins more serious thant what is in in thisconclusiu.ii„ in (he very secret of its open] [1 i ul the fiction of itssuspcime. For a iaigL number of reasons.. Srmv.` seem to bctuunccl the 1.335.1.ullicrS lEived.14.] the inrurr Eil{: archive.

A. Ccuirc-rning The frirrricr, those which 1001; t.c..pivarci ]he past,I will s.:13- r3nly word. lt Twill go in du...direction of what, i,l Freud'seyes, 311(1 0.4116CLIlar in The Rai ..11.1an,. tin 1•111C 1. , [0g[C55 of scienceAJLd ECUMAL 1.0 LILL ill 4JVCIAL VI 1.1.1c pittirlarckitc. Ilk a .11i0tC 'Which ]

nol Ilavc the 11:ffilc (u rt•,Lid FIE..r.r. and will cominctitFITULI ['kt-7 11.1. i:L. Lichrrnhcrg, whol.C• 111•Ort he

kecks. HtM

mistake in offirrriing rbal there can he no doubt 47

Abi.JuL Liic i4lentity of the mother, insofar as it depends on the Wit -

❑ess of the setts s, KIC3111111y 11.c faritcr alwaysdoubtful since' it 4.ieliendii,I:LW_ _1 .1._{311pL", CM 3 l'31:11_1.1•1111 cilce„ .L

"legal fiction" or which Siephch srocalcs in lu}'ce's briyik'i. 1 low

cw•vr, bc([er than cver te.day., i I only with the pussibility of 5 urrog.l tr

.rushers. prosth.ctie rnattrnitics, 5pe.rni b.anks, and all the artificialinseminations., as tlic..y art s42curcd for us Already and %krill be sc-

•• - • • - - NtEMP6&-•"7"7-"127•r-e.1- •

rei I still more fill' Li ill Ilk: future by bio-generie tethim-suictice„'hyr know Linn maternity is itikrr•d,corislructed„ and inicrpretycl;LS paternity. And as pater nrill LANs.. In truth., it has always hccri rhos,1 04 the ofie and for t he other_ FiNr1.3.1.1 makes a second mistake inbelieving with Lichtvoberg bat paternity, and it alone, I as unccr-min is tIii illle511011 o 1.01Cd1Cr the MOW/ is 1.11111;11,11XLI: NAr knowtilday, ilk ;di n153 ,Ectivc certainly, [hilt the 111111.0111 i uninhabited, ;1101.1..C0111TTSCly, 11 15 1.•,71 ,CLCI" to set 4111 1.1 ti tt1.14:11 111;lt S.;11enite 'S 50111

t} ce`rl.,iin idcntitv Lola mother. I-k makesa third mistake in dr:1W-nig from all khr.. a errors, iLlulsi ils r or phantasms it phAlrigoc..erittieC011(1.1.1S10.11: beLause oil this presumed call to reason Ili the aSSigird-jun 01 . puerility, beyond the ''witness °l the senses," the p;k5Sage to

[Lit (11■31ked the 6k:dieing 11.6 111-111ph rl reaSalk CIVC

d i,C111..-C r pc rrcption.In doubting that Anna-Anrigone had spoken, from London to

Jerusalem, in ht...r own name., in visibly hoping that she had spokento the name of the father--uf her dead 14ELIECC — WILA dEleS the Sig

rumor): of the "Monologue k,Liii Ft mill 10 Overprint in thru t...14:" fir this iiniliitcral corn vidi aid cxf this COVellallt, 1E1 this re•ir-•imicision of- Freud? Well, lie perhaps inscribes, perhaps (j am in-

.:It-cc] saying perbapc), as if he were signing his name, a discreet butencrgeric and ineffaceable virility: we ilie ia.thers, we the archons,we the vatrialchs„ guardians of the archive and of the law, I sayperhaps, be,..aise all these questions 35 51.15pCrldcti :Is the f-uturr. to I.11.1W t411 . 11

am indeed saying "perhaps." as Yernshalmi says "perhaps" atOILC Ski the most decisive rrinnients or his suspended conclusions"Absurd? Run tomer elakit —purhaps, alter v1l . . " I. 99J ).

II/Vliat. IS in lirrr. rt 4..(iining to a ColichlSiotl on the .subject01 hiE clissiimilaied r. r 1.1E1;IVOW11.1.4e 111101.1 .ght accorcl-

ing TO whirl) psychoanalysis would he a Judaism without. God; or2C.Crirciing to which, cv we r ming, the future of Laius and of Oedipusor the future of religion, Would be no hope. i Jot] mayWell he right.," Sa15 Yerushahni, SccS in the closure of the LI-

1.113 C,. ill 1111.Telr 4oillcW5., in the nolipromiSc, more than in the athcisin,what is. lciliSt inost u1, friA•iS11, 131i Freud; such Jewislinesshurt, if not Judisn -i, comes clown, in its minimal essence, but asNeltliCe 11Selfi to the ornritss. of the future. But it is on tliis ques-

Lion of hope 1or „lopelessness," Ye r1.3311+1111(111 41.4r11.] say ILO Freud, "eventflore than on Cp'ex -1. -or g,4)cllessiiess., lhat •Okil ttach.ing mrly he at itsMost iln-Jewish " [95I. I stress this essential modality of theperhafm,,;H I am always lei/Tied to do. It &earls I.c} MC to be irueducible.Nietzsche claimed to recognize the thinkers of the ['owe by theircourag.c to say. prilhops. I emphasize "perhaps" fur yet anothri re-1-sun, while alluding io thAt ritriorchal filiation or eIclers into whichlicrtisholnil seems to inscribe himself, at beast by one of gesuires.Because he also asks Professor Frctid a remarkable question aboutthe identity (If The moth.cr, uI his oedipal scherna,. perliaps a non-5clys ible. icici a l Ey., skidd ed p•rlialis fruill. the WiltneSS 0111)C 2PCIISCS.

111W the " legal 1 -11:111.3d Oldie father and evcil more than this lict.alliSt

t ltils time the wor nnici would be the law itscIf

tlic ToTali, the Teaching, the revelation, the torah which in He-brew is grainimitleatly feminine and which is midrashically

tO ;E hriile_ It is over possession of her that Christianity,the voimper sun, rime to chall.cligr, not so much the Father AS

[1.1C111S111, the elder con. For ihig struggle -sibling riwalry" is per-haps ton. lame a phrase. Psychologically (and alas, all too ofteneven historically) we are talking about fratricide. [92 l'

R. Yes, ICI tis ratlici spi..11 of the into] c. Just Before asking 111S

4.[Iirsiirm of the phantoin of the path:it- ch i of the arrhontit s pecterof psychoanalysis. at the moment he promises to keep the stcret,above all it lit confirms that psychoanalysis is mile +~1 a Jewish sci-encx, 'Cr" ushaltui takes Ike. risk. of making decisive gcsuo•c.. ]ri

indeed th5tiaguishes, and ...ve will .tornc hack to thusheu.vc,cii J414 ]31iiic . JILLI F LIiJ.ii Ikb. 11 IL c.an le n1erinin.,11.511 "rrligimi, Li nr Jewishness is nut. Ont• carinot iran5latc "40. 1 t$

most UP14CW1Sh ." by "the furthest Flom ludaisrn [at ph/4 &iglu& du judoxs the I:rfin Il i tillyilatirni 1.11]C.W I Ili n,L Lhc risk of 1„,r1.1.ilyilig irr 1311.11-i l lky

File vrry thesis of th.n. lxwik.bri Clirigiaiiiry and9. OFil this of the brad1CF..11 ,1.1 C'efl 111141215M

in particular in FIR. iliMI1LLE101.1 permit me to rC(f r );Lou L1.4

Poiaidpre.f.rie 111.31.,Lisly i10 li. 1kt...tiling 1.11.111 4" raw im .gc!% ESP likiS ;pies.' ion,fratricide, rushAlini pins forth the' hypothesis a-crordling to which the

figure of C-ain ol • e:r5. an 17X iiiallxion whirl] is -as [..TOCent - as that of Ordipus.

1:SEri Ike', Ill ed 1.1.3 r...i.gro ph, ]tip' foe r (OF s the encl. E: pi n•tc I 1.1c.•); i •

ca] axi4iermti c which had scenic.] tip to this poini to lx ii prestipilo.

his cri5colirsc.•. To (lescribc this gest re I will Select. !loc.

;1 g:k i L, (1(11 y 4.7.(111.L: 11b. LI IC rchivc. First of all, it Stelt15 tliat iii

pf !VAC I{ I 1 sL1t s LI I VW , in a p tn..] re la.f cr.. e la lkaa rt: a y

LX' C11, iL3 CIL( C SSC L311:LlS El LC 10.12( IC 130E3 SC 4.11.31 Ye LI411.11[11i SCI:11 LS EL]

r o r r tr nd o i I i for,. by pr4511)1XiES 01; E krcp

i t to h i sel f, as if Fir wanted to linve For Fiiinsrlf in Ercret. Cur

liiq owri JrAr.1 priririrlr rlf in

c4.1tially privarc VILNA) ne +, 'hiC11 dd. h ;n1 alrcauly

cLiiliCr!) 10 1 91J L 'LCO l'kfrsellli. A:, 3 5.5-..13111C.{.1 dila re w Lih

I.N .21.11d, al I I (Inc, a sccre 1 I llat ci I sad rerid v ron1341 t.o so Inc...-

CHIC! . hefore rimla.al Ell i WA C'VC11 110m: "1 n 1 1)2 6,"

ve ri cs, "you wrote p r 10 Enrict) !Fol.] were Plot

sure' that Ins notic_511 that p5yclivanal.ysis i5 a direct product of the

toiml Ii CC )rrei.t.h t that if it 1.(1 n i t Irr ;15.11d [13*1.1 11'

).

A itcr [hiving ritcd p ri ate t].'(. it , 11:C'11.351)311113 .1{ILIS :1 rc -

E . iit C}31.1' SE 11)14.0 1110 5.1:11{144 - (111171 riot, of l hr

Evrwc-cri Judaism 1)syclicyarml•Ais_ Th.i. two rcrtnis or id) nsi

L.12I bCODITI C CC1 L.I ally LI k 110W i ntic tc r i n te, If CI to ht: (letcr-

nlioc.(1. OVC.1" 0 L L LoL:i 11S fi.'.:11C I 1111'S del.: I'd T;311.01),

I M (11{' ]:i51 Ell.;LgC 1 1.111C1 '' N/101111,111Pg LJ

Profcqsor [-reud.. at this point ] find it flitik to ask whetFier, ge-

netically or 5t FUC turally„ 'LS TCa Ely a le 'iv i h

t]i.It tine shuilif it is knolvahle.. oidy when [midi

irv o rk will dIvpc...n4...1., t).111

111.0'..5.' 11W 'h (Ty tclins .1.J 1c1 ic.rehic• r 4.- Li) 1K: d [incl. I .

now, leaving tile se mant ic n cl e pi Etrill esti.on s • ci fi

wAnt .only to know v..1-ictlier you ulturnotelv cirnc belit-ye it to

E.31.. so_ 11

enspFlasizes you: wimi is iinporl :int is not sn much

FE1 rtf: w h CO' Ff C1111 Slir'111.11d Srly J.1CILC Ellif51('fIVIr I", ILI 14 Al

re:ud). rickciiiwictiged it in a - the fact that he 5h.onid :my it,

biro (-you") with, his mouth, arid sign it he.rict ED. nh 165 kallrl e,

an{.1 sigh it as one subscribes to a -whether ultimata}.

c..inie 415 belitvc it F., he so.- This is 0.r.riy hr avrriLtt in iciow: "I

linly to know whc.tlwr C IV to brlirvr it ic .pkic

so." Tin ;Lg.(' count .Ir rn _ s, ;:i rift he 1.1•3 S t r sl

co recall it, that Frc-ucl h

,c..repcii /hi!, :3-t kasr year

if h4 kiNks it c.)i . him again, it . lie kDk5 . QI I r5t) re', if lit St I71 ...ok

new conlirinmicin i11111, it is ;Li, Ll . 111C %•al RC{ I L 1112 LLSE W45r l 1 , W12

last will. the ultimate signature ("taint:Hely - ) tly ng father •

and to be 15.[1313 .1110FC of 311 :11 I TrIli 1 y draci r_ I{' aanls MI

ultirrint.c rerirtitirm, at the lit rninutc; x.19 FOT :In enriTareablc

countersignature. or what Freiii.1 sixty-li•t.. ye r e2 rlier 3II cl

(41.11tc a few othicr ti.CCO SLCIU Til iS 11.gagüIl ("1( 01.1g111( 10 h. if -

ti'r raili.Ir F by F.iigaging a (IC 3 1){!F hOIL, IL (.1. ILE}

10(1 ;Cr ]x' Sk I EliCCt 10 rklr SE r.1 regiC Leii1;11 n n o the LICni:Lls clf thc

ng FTC ci to the re r2cti n of 111e Flokid 1161.9. r a rsyc ho-

Rnalysi.5 exposed to RI] II IC aI111.i-SCIE1 i tiC V UteS.

This 11cc Linn SCC ❑ 1:i Lta Cliangt all [Lc signs. It is this, this

1.1.flic, IL seems 1.0 UNC 3 XL ;.1.31 y 4.11t14-1 jUSILi ry the book's subtitle,

1:,rdihism l'ermie?..iffir arid trifc.r.Prr.iPrabir. Et. I caVeg Op< n tie the htulte,

olill• I he definition. lig - 11(• I lir licit - tin innlAiry ric

.ilci rimst of psychoanalysis. Up to

this !Iowa in ..311V raAr 1.3 - 1 lo the opening of this ficti.ec nlonoiciguc,

usl La I t m 'had JEK;11.'ilift".(1 IliS I iSOL)1 I - fOr hc hulk of what, in

thcofv, shiorvii 41cilionsiritccl-CM LI IC 4LINILC;31. ou•ili5

knowledge, or h al a rs h p, lid El f Cpi h LC1 I1E3h}gy WI i {10111 i mitc: UL

C C ieritihc C4 ,II111-1 111.11i t I (FIC 1)11j1- •I .tvity EJ I hisic Pi S

alt. archivist. or tiic sociolc.igist, the Ilse velefence•

stable dICEIlt5 arid t.hc rte 1 at is e ex [Cr ioritv i rl rc] ation to thc

L Eyarticul.a.rly LJI EC lat1011. acC[11'4C: LICttr1.1111Fid aifrad

gwelv , .111C prig 01 1L] a (3y MSC' 0111 y rireettrnpintr,.

thus tt-ritiichible in :I. f1L11.31T clocritiirmhic• as FL Mire pr<L&cni

it Ili tin linn oFtli.ronnstmivr. r 1 lie prr r 111.aCi 12C, crc. Th is hOW

p an C.3 inlerpFrt rerim rk. in (le " in pssing, concerning the

ti15[:(1vcry anti uneN)ected publication, in 1980., ut the privatc

arc:11111A: (]1: !";.1 H. IA pliC I rCi U. 1.1 iSi■Cele cry,- Yerurslialtui outes,.

"SI LOU LC I ;16;C) Sr PIC ED FC.13 il IC I. UN Of 110V. i 1 LLCM (L .131421.0 ;UR! tun

n y ch 3111 LSI 11+1 i 11 ta Lir rctli..)11St t jun.!. 0l ' t1IC histury 4.)f

1 1.53't EICI;LI] :il vsls, IMO tilt: mounds in tnalterioh unpubh.slicil or1..":“ricteel arc made 1411. incoinpicirticss

of the A rtIOVC, And 1.11115. A Cel•:Lill LleterM111:11 1111L• 1~I/1111C,

N1111(111.1 iN: i;114.1211 i dol , COCISIdernrUM by the histnrian iii nn• "recoil-SI 1 111C111.1115. Of the history of mic-hoarialysi_" Now this incomplete-ness is of an entirely diiferrnt order from that of the future whichis in question at the end -Mcmologne." [In. the Jill...Idle the

whar W_IS in Llitestion WAS SIL11 all 111.41J114 1.ICtet1C'r5; 41111.I1 A In

titre that I•IIIng in the normal of scienitiric Iii ow uSS. Withoutdoli13r, at the end of the "Moriologue" Y•ruslialini again allutics

to the future of some " lu turc 11,-ork_" Rio the !inure of which he!hen speaks, and above all when it Culict:rns the coliccptS of ScicliCC

EA 110.h. islm.c.․ )., is not. LA C.FIR.Itlf Ur 111.1101C 'LlICI7iL11.511ele -

11C5.S. 1 t is no longer only the 1)1'0 1:itilc]1iAl Llidetel(11111:1111311 iipcncill• oicliikary held scieniilic work in progrcss and always iinfinislied, in partic -tilar because nem.. ni- •hiveS can srill he discoverod.Currie out 01 S-ccrc-cy or the larivaTC sphere, so as to undergo newinterprcuitions. ]t i 111.1 longcl qui.-SLion of the slum time, iltcSaline r1C1c3, ;Ina CIF the .tialE1E: rclatioinLip to the archive_ At WC 1.11{)-

munt when the (lei-laws to tin: patriarch that it would heord< whether, genetically or si r psychtmnaly,ic

re;illy a Jewish science," and when tic adds: 'ilia we shall know, 21-

IS Is at all law emphasis', only when much future workIlls lxttl done. Nrlv.cll will eleventh IA COUMC, UL] 111 C VC1 y tcrms1•f2)1.Ch And se rcntc ;IIC LLI l defutt.-Ll:' at 11 ES 1110111,CM lie .1.11;11hgeC

registers and (lams In stri-Ace., he siLsprriilS the .aXio-inatii.- .;IISSILIT:131CCN, 13011115. and rules which ha,1 served him untilnow iri c)rganiznig the scientific work, tint ably historiographic(Am...Limn, and in particular its rclanonship to the known and Un-l{.11.0.W11 ThC were ord er .1)1. kikowlcdgc, at lekL}E 4.P1 4.10,551rall

knOWICLI)J,C, is Ntosiv ticd. At issuc Is Arlo! her contcpt of the lut41I c,which wr will Fri urn_Since I hw questions that dominate ihe soh lr. book, up. to this

"Monologue.," concern the relations between Judaism and science,not.ahly iliai se ieutc which 3...6y4,:lwan,ilysis has waisted to lie,

Yernshalini 111C scholar pre5.utnei.1 F.;oninniouhly the knowledge. sif

"science - and "Itidaisni - meant. n 311 evaluation of the

chaiac.icr of psycliciaimliois will. in question, the historianoften simpwrct hiinsrli to be y s.ev.erc ar54i Appe.-11, con-ci.rni lig what ht. in this book as in lak6or: Jewish kiistury and

Jewish Memory, Frtud's Lamarckisin car "psyclio -Laniati,.:kit.m -

I. 1091 : w it is aii antiquity condeinnell by the state of science, of ascience which is not Ycruishalmi's scicitcc and ol which Inc nwokcsr_ILC r4:54.i1t%, 5.1131.1, from the exterior, as. woklicl historian, whowould content liin,se If 1(3 record the rt . sitlts ihat are validated. at .Lparticular inninent., by a scientific community in which hr does riottit Lively pa rticipaic and 01: which he dcws not share the comptten-cics, On the °dice YelLIShiblini accepts, we Cali $1.11,1)1}SC, thathe belongs to rlic scientific community of historians tir of sociolo.gist ill parlhallicr f 111,:niVIS-E1 CLAIRIPEL (he is professor of"Jewish 1 fistory, C.:ulture s. and !,‘'...•Kiety .). He shares actively andbrilliantly in its productions.. he increases and refines its abilities.But in wh;ii has to do with genetics or the history of life, lieactxpis ilie tole of mull-al Etbscr•cr and. in Ow end of doxtrgraphc r.

I le must in this doinaiti things are more turbillrnt andoinrr opnr i1' iniure than evti, more than :any' here else, and

not withour some relation Lu the future status of a re hivizat ThecpisTernaingical status that he claims for his discourse would tirostaeril A 11E111:m01 study. liVr. shall Link: sct nail the c.'.at tography of theborders he assigns hiltisuli. This is nut so ,ciisy, given 1.114.•cif such hulks. h .SC1•1115 t hilt ill the 41111:11.1-trnality OF LI1V Wink, and

ill , tSr [IIC thYCS114►1(1 01c author presents him -self as a historian .k.ho claims m hold himself ddiberatelv exteriorto his .11.e historian. the subject of this historical kedge,. clue, not tlien pres.eni as Li lexs ur .LS psycho-

As such. I IC treats the psychomlillytiC arChiliC EWA, 'IL:

rig1111 01 act-cs% io which,. flu! thr evninalion or whichof - the psychoanaly5t.171/C not proprrly the affair enlicr of the jew or

On maw,- occaAions, Yerushalini claims this disiance as the verycondiiion for the history he intends to write_ He clues it, fur ex-amyl..., Ii lititting iltuSc minis of Philippe AI in Liu: cXergut! ofhis I.1sL chaptcs, 'inst. 'before ihr "Mcinologue ll —words that For

10. In a polar,• iii 1987 w11icI dews not apix3r in The first editiuli.

•-c11we111.1111141 1 1 :1PRIIT.T.v01;crEl• -",---"IMPIIII=--

Ilk}' port (and LIN is 4 ai tt-it the L..LSC 1 .01 4.111.11. SL1VS 1114.1 4.113C3 '1111

gc.'11(-f ill) I find ninrr 11.1.an prolll•rnatic:

One 4-:nn rnakr 311 .311eMpf at the history Of behavior.. that is cosav, at a psychological history, without being oneselleither a psy-chologist ter a psvChoalialleM. 4.11n.1 What: kccping 0114:4ell At a di: -

tat -i•e from the thcorie•, tlIc 4•4.3Cabtlilai y MILL Inc-thuds oftrinckrn psy4. -hology, 1.1.1 engage these very psy.clioloisis on their terrain. I lone is born a historian one becomes

jiNychulogist in one's warn fashion. [571

'lb express briefly lily perplexity MI this rIc1.1 it t,.trl11 1.3.11.y I do iliot

41:11r Yrroslialini's c..nlidonce when he cites much a remark , findingin it come- backing no doubt, I wonder what it could incan to"horn a historian'" 175i on nait historien . ") ;110 1.4.1 1.3',150 WIC 'S

authority on titiIrk ttl It cpislcmological 1HJIl1t Li! 41CW_ And ak.K.1 1/C

,1111, 4 ontemo [AM.?, KIIPIK)Sing L11.31., Ilk SUCIL Ck..111dillUll5, LAIC Ci..1 11/LI

rlrF ;L psy4:111.1.1Lrgi.C.1] history', this vicktdd 1LOt stii1Ficr NJ (141 a. hiSkro1 y r

pi y C1101()g y, even les.c 0.E psychnanalysis; and allOVe ;III 11.114 :it thisi)oint where this science, this proj.ree for a scinler ;11 least, which iscalled psychoanalysis, claims 10 transform tilt:: srAILIS Of the

ubjCCE, thC SICUCtill CC OF the ;Lrchivc, the colic-17 .w or "his-irutli," indeed 41.f Si: it' I )4:[.. ill general, the mud-lock of dud-

phering thr archi.er, thy' implication of the subject in the space krclaims to olli•elivh...e, :Ind notably The topology of X11 the internal•external partil ions that structure this subject and make of him aplace for archives in relation to which no obiectivization Is pure,um In truth passible, ltidk i5 to sat)'. cuttlpltt. ;aid 43. -minable_ Lycli a dassical histuriali UI sLiunte should 110111.

inside tltr conlctit 1-.1 . 1114: of which he do.es the history.Anil if this coot-col concerns in fact historiography, there is nn podrite oi good epistemology for authorizing oneself to I 1 i 1 i1 into

Onc d e prives oneself in this rase• of . thr demi:man:tunditiums, of Ike minimal semantic %l ability, and almost of thugrammar %rhich Any/ cinr to speak nbout that of which OHL:

VCAS. To want re ...speak about psychoanalysis, to claim lo do thuhistory of psychoanalysis Iron, a purely :ipsyeboanalytic point ofview, purified of all psychoanalysis., to the puint. of believing one

could erase Clic iraccs of any Freudian iniression, is I ikc claimingthe 3ight ILJ Speak NA01431kt knciwing what one's speaking ;41:tokn,

without evcit wanting to hear anything about it_ This structure Lcriot only salid for the history of - psychoanalysis, or for any discolirseOn psychoanalysis, it is valid at least for all the so-called social orhuman sciences., but it rectiveN a sits golai utilcction here which wc111115.1 eX.3.111i11C ;.1 bit 111 ,LJR: 411,n■Cly,

I n fact, Yerliskilriii knows that he IL-minor haws this exterinrity.fe Iulow5 it too well. To liberate his discourse of all Freudian

preimpression is. not only impossible, it ...vuuld be illegitimate. Butas lie aka) (10-tML't want to rCrl 04,3 n allcged constative and theo-

licialthility Illr classical stholar (Jr historian CIALMS

his norm, the 1 105ition of his discourse hum, it] any CAW in the IlFettCr

Fur of his book and before th.c: "Monologue," is double, r ciiiivocal,liristable, I would even sav exquisitely tormented_ Doomed to de-nial. sometimes awy.ved in its very denial. At once persecuted andtranslated by tlic symptoms that call irresistibly liar a posts.cript,'Lundy, this ". P.. 1 1.1 Lidoguy with FIT11(1;"which rCSCH1b]r5 ----vir pre-LCIL4IS 1.11 resemble the LH-ginning of an analysis arid the declaredconfession of a transfer. Whether it resembles or pretends to re

this postscript undoubtedly carries, in truth. 111 its very Eic -lion, the truth of the book_ This is marked in particular in thetrembling of a geStUre aittl the instability of therefuses to INC ;II psychronalyst but .115C3 re frains from no! bring apsyelloanalySt:

liVe shall take. only two examples, precisely where they nife:CT adouble relationship to the archi%T.

"Hie first, [1.1c arch-exampfe; shows us the desire (1l.alk admit ablehisturim who wantS SLIM ti1) 1)C E 11C first archivist, tin: first todiscover the archive, the archaeologist and perhaps the. arrlionthe an-lin:v. The first archivist institutes the archive as it shg.iiild be,E.11;31 is to say, not only in exhibiting the document but inesteibiingit_ I-le reads it, interprets kt, C.13.SS.CS it. In this case, what is in play isall the more .serious. as flit'. dOCumcnt turns out to keep this inSCrip-tion in I he form of .k 41L-CliCati(l, n LELIA ikcOMParkics a reiterated gift,the second present. the rrstitution of the. Philippsohn Bible by thearch-patriarch to pat ria Fell of psych 00 rialySiS, the present 1.vbichJakob son of . Slieloinoh Field gm's CO Shelomob Sigmund

Prclacl., tlllit ty-rnic years Mier a circumcision, which bcgins, t-

calling 0, hirn in naming the. Ark or the CoVen:ULL .ltd thE TablriZOF the Law, 4-iuniyances in stint that hc will he t he fir st{ aft f'r Freud), indeed the only person (after Frcird) to open, i r rim Tohold, the archive of what he calls "one crucial episode," He wouldI ike, as 1,vc will sec, to hr. the first here: the first afro. Freud, the firstseciiiid, an eldest sari, !lir first s.CCunt.1 .3rld thUS fur a moniela alonewith Freud, ;done in sharing a secret. iI lc ks (crtainly not the onlyone or the first to %maw- to be the First rifer •irivei and thus aloncwith FICIA; WV. have several others in FranCr, in that Prent•t line-age from which Yerustialini seems to want to shield hirnsell—but

- as li unk the plague.)nit the case, for what rcas4111 hc lic3ii.1142 Why

is he so e:rnbar•asserl about the question as tea whether he proccedsin the Manner of those whom lie will later Lan "ordinary histi)ri

i861, or already in the manner of a psychoanalyst historian, ini)tlicr wurd.s, ui sonic in the manner of a;k inheritor iJL thelineage of the 1lattri,Irsins cir arChliatriaidIES W.11054:. ilfiCheirT he dtd-

phrrs for the first timc, and "properly" I IC Sari "prordy " ms;ic c ,And ht clai.MS ti] be ,cit..•i,rher a?? analyst nap d notranalyst,. 4kn 'lug

EVY'a hypeakneS at once ! thus not denying either MC. succes-sively or simultaneously, The passage is as follows:

Mine is one crucial (Inside involving Jakcili and SigmundFrrncl which has not yes bcas properly assessed ceilE,11;isis], n u tleast because iT invOlVeS 1-felircw [ext which }Las (Fryer becnproperly transcribed [again my emphasis! (the k ad-mittedly cltifieult), iet alone 4k/equate* glosseri 45 imy emphasis!.!hit it is, Hi cflect,, the one ,..:;...tikonic.a/ text of Jakob Freud at ourdisposAr. In Wh a t Follows I neither presume tc . dignify tuv rc(on.struction as "psychoanalytic" (tii(migh it is no Icss srl !kin oflieS5

pretend to bu) (this will be a in3griificent :nut luminousreading] nor, given the !imitations of a single text, do i claiminoic Wait a partial insight. [701"

I I . l reCOMIlirmi item 45 113.1•• 31] to dun( who drily Lc lurtiltrLrl 1rcrus.h.aIrpi -5 corsTin ter iiiark at orkoc the priority (14r rid owee

Here now is the foflowing example, the example also of Mal

which roam% a Jecomi example of primo-secondarincss, Ole ex-ample of this eldest I.Luit, of this seCOIld cicicst NC)111 Ur Jakob. 1:rcud.,ul this doul.,1,. m.actis of a ili5tOriail who rcitise5 without Nvallting to

refuse to be without being a psychomulysi. says to us.in the condiconal tense what he would jay, and thus what he says,if he were to permit himself - what Ike thus pea miLs himself, ilJEEMly,

"the luxury of a. technical psychoanalytic terin •- -.an example of 'de-

fermi obcilienceIn : "s110121(1 I finally allow 1111yScICILlic !Warty' of atrchnicni psychoanalytic term—an example of ideferted oh•rdi-crice'177b At issue here is the deferred obedience of Freud to hisFather, of the patriarch to the arch-patriarch. (One has a hard timehalting the !.ietfience ;int.] 1.1w scene: in a kw minute:5, we will per-haps speak of Yeruslialim's "'Litt:erred ohediencv." to each of 111eNcfiglireS Mid draw frOM this son1C1:0[14.71USiOrn.)

A precious doi.s.tirn•itury citiestion, niict again, of nrcharologi-cal and of the detection of the archi•e. It Muer enS a

single: sentence: in a SIM of

added this Nernence. AS an eXpreSSIMI (.31: retTM1- 5.C., only in 1935. c.meycal after the first sketch of Maw'. It is importact1 tti krill...," that thisscinen•c was oiniticil, "a4. -ciciclitrillv," the Standard F.difirm s3ys, iiithe Gcsanzmeire Werke of 048; and it is also absent., and for gondreason, from the French translation of Marie Bonaparte, whichdates from 1928, But this omission was maintained in later editions,at least until 1950. One could add this small philological remark tothc file Frctila illiPIISCIritNyestigatcs in chaittcr f, of Lhe essoy

or his Affmri [SE 23:11 Ii,], in the coursc of those rich prIgeS nn

archiwization, the oral tradition and the written tradition, biblicalexegesis,. b.istortography. and as the Ergsre1402gen, all the defor-mailialiN; 451 tt!Xt WI11X+ lie compares to murders.. l now cite the

scutcni:c ♦dad l}'p Frcutl ill 1935, as i1 1S citud by 'Ali

h r y wiLal iN ;pinny! laLr. LL Anti •l 1.;11 re pity<1

tr► It null cogiccrns tlic competition of I wo othcr transcriptions, pram! .1-

1 ♦ton 5.. ;Hid ♦inn .

Thc text, Seilbs,idarsiclltirwilr first ptiblislicd in Dic Mcdizin der Gegrn-

iPaht (1925.), uppraccLI LI L Fait4li5.11 .4 4. Ain Apialiattrophwal .5emei2i. ISE 20;7 701.

dcep cikli,..1 . L.053ti)cm 113 111.e StE_Pry SuOil ki.S. I Ei;d1.1

nrd thr nut of rcdiriug) L13L1 , 15 [ rri.- E 1 ...1 111AC:d 111101 14 11147, ;In

e{kCt upon the die ection of rrty irr.e.rest. ISE 20 kvkl,Yerushalrni 771

11 .crushahni iilttccE./cLs titc thicLJEllent 411thiCh this addlitiu.lt CuftSii-

riirr%, tcri. 'ecars Liftcr (iyu Caitt011:

Sighifirmitly. the 12s1 sciiitenrc did nor apiw;ir in thiC firs' v.di-tion. It was added only in 1935, the year afrcr the completion oftILC .11LaJlik.n.CripE draft of 21,11 risei, 0114 now, 1C11-05poct, didFICLIC[ fr.:1114C the 11. 1.11 11Elpact suady i)fthr.. Bible on his II.fc,anti 0111 %.flit] rtilly ark 11101.6.: 14 4: ii. In this Aensr. 11.(rAle-srand Aironolhrism represeras, al last. a fuliiilmcni or inkohmandaic or—should I filhally tTlyselt the luxury of atechnical [Thychounallytic Cxamplc tJ f "clefietrd ohe-cliencc. - [771

•111 ;LE di rin [dwe[hilik On his '-l ikiCrred 4)ig.'{FICE1CC H) (1 Will •101.1:

first in pi] rrnttleSCS little sentence can Ow 'acci)113CM HI the irtmitdiatelv followed by another,YErushalini dexs nut judging it tu Iic legitirnatcly 1:142yond the

icniarks, 11C 1.7.1.111. iti5L bezforc 11;rol3t Chc fit's[ ci.11Liuq7on, tbic sClitCrl“ {leCklIT'd 11.41111.1.1 ing ;Eh] faSCirlii(di liiupc which'Frri34.1 had very early for what 'Dal win's4.143vs notname Lamarck here.— ,,ke.rc able to prornis.e :3t the time for diet LiLuiu LaI scincc,)

lit concept. a '11-leit:f (F1K 'WIC LAIN be uumptcel torccugnize 4.1r (hu keys Or, if yitI 114CFCC, ocic 01111C Scab of 'Jib.(Jrkireiork. I mean of tbis IxxJk ].)v !cruchairrIi, icrist

hOOk (Fri Ihr ]1) Fact, klIc key Or [ht: sral, whivt signs ;midoffers to he is less a (Once tE14' .Freudian coricept of -deferredubedicnce' don its im[ileii]LJitatimAi by Yertish:31mi_ Thismcntai ion lakes Fllic CumIcpL 5.4.'1E111.01,1t titking if, 1.15.U.S It With01.11(

It: it IL IE1CnriC111S - rather L Ellin " 1.3SCS I- it, 45 iprr acf.( theorist lo4.0.1,11iiSay; it inak cs i1 con<cpt (Brgyr:Th out of it %-whieh i IL turn grasps without gra2iping, comprehends v• .ilhout taking. Arid this double ge.s-

Llifc LJt SLIALculiC %vim in1cul.[5;11 INICC RO a5suinc ;LIR! 1/01. 10 aNNI11.31C

1.1)i• II irOfet iCCP•SCLeElt111 1.' rrs.01115111)11.1Ey of s 41C11 4.N.)J10C1. 1 1, 1111.S IS ilIC-

C-11.Cly tile SCC11(' rir " luxur • which the conditional cricitit'tty de-s•ribes.: "should allow myself the luxury ofa technicnI 4' 5y -

chuanalytic tertn—art crEaritplc of "deferred olacclielit:c.'" play15 alt tILC j ills IX'L%Y.V.111 if Lit [3 iliNd Ei ti L,. I L iLS.NLIEC5.1.11C

L ILIiL'^ tit ilic 11-1471 . 1 kp it LSP articul.ate topet.hcrlour cliapters of i`scltolarship" sec thrin%el.ers rin conformingto the traditional norms. niscientificity, and ;:i Iasr chaiitc.•r of fictivrmonologue with 0 specttr who, at len5t rin longer re-sponds, But [Eie last chapter, the mos.( tictive, is Ce.rlaitilv fkoL tElL

lead 1It". [111 its term if i1 dors not sdy like !null, it IrAled(Cd

.11 1.17.1. LISELIIC.5 2.1LgC C1)1.11{1. tit] S 4.P11 - 0.)11dC5-Olt' 1110141n the censr :1 1 i 1 51

chin. It inspircs. 7.45nicthirig else 111 1JS about Ow 1(1.7th IJ[ • truill:

about the history elf . the truth, as al...Jut the truth of the enigrnaticclifkrelicc walittd !o mat k betlycen "rnatcrial truth - and- hi$turical truth. - ] .c..tuttol 1[1.3;3y:L.ILC a []0.tC1

1411.C.56011 011 . die :31"1:1115+-C tOlidy., VC.ty st.Akes of this verti .g,i -hulks Lliiferctice,

llow does the .1111:5041rVi. OF this "ilrivrrircl oireclienct" FCmiri ac-cording to me, the two period$ c_If this boi)h..3 The 1) rhisconcept i,miciardgacile Gehorsam, al:ter the fact"), ;3'.; Yeru-shahn] l'crlaCcs It in a few lines, goes kick to Triftlin did Ttlitint I 1

Proud nc)[cs [here- dim "Thr. IWC11131r stronger limit lhc

. ..iccnrilancr the psyclkological prue,x4iur Irtafmiliair to us in psych14.5-analyws tiridcr F1 K' 14.1 (le: C..1C leferi . cd 13.13e-di.enCe ' " ISE 13 43 .1_

Fruit] Ill's vtry COILvincmg sLagmg, driDA'S X511 tilt'

441t15 411' 11LC$ , C:uiski.itg front 7:oreen aliyd thc "Lc4111.111Cilin -

ecipt 111)ediellCe•' is rro3/4-rd anil ransicrrCci, here trAi.with the re q.!! iFCtl ticiny. 4)ritri hinekc.11., From! the atlrhor of

The- dt:rrrrect titre becomes that or Sipn)undJakob, his futhcr:

]3, It i5 s []; :u.s_age Lilac J M13111tCti !4J LLLICipseL pre.luusly, LEY its relationship

C4.1 thIC CnigIch cif Slit [RV and tviih rc rc re ncr Mar KiII i. Vor pierri tr.110/r1.7...

- I'r6)11,g6s; 1)evani la

writing ilifwes Lind Plionutherim he belatedly obeys the fathern4I his alaudate by returning tea th ilrteILSti.0 Andy Ur tilt'

Bible, LIM al the same lime lir 111.1.1111talliS independence If

his rather through his intcrpri..tation, rejects the "materialtruth" of the biblical nar rative bin reiliiCt.'S in his discovery of its"historical truth," [78)

"Where dn•s this leave us?". Yet- lush:11mi Ink s before praising LouA RdleaS-Salrirlte". Who SAIS Sit(' rc;id lk 11('W fi It In Of tilt "relit i n of

the repressed" in 214oses, this rime HOt in the form of "phantoms mitof ihr past" but rather in the. form of what one could cAll a "tri-umph of lire:" The afterlife Istervivancd no lunge' nieans. death andthe re1411 n ctrl LEIC SIV4ACII 1)0E die SO I v 7'12 1.1 Lg 4.PIA 11 C.X.LUSS (.1.1 whichlesistg Anniflikaion ("the survival of the [oust IriLilrL I all ,Ilat yjEa I de

-ments of rhr past") 1. 781..

Two paws later, at the beginning of the '7%1. 0[101010.W Wir hTCLIIS11411[1[Li dare% to address himself to Freud. Thus he

himself spcak.c to one or these -phantoms ucit of the past." This111:537 LOI SC-MIS 1.0 have Caine.- straight tft13 fainter: "T1Lou a ira S-,holler: speak c 01 it, the patcrnalspecter of Professor Frtiod. This is Lill II ncornimill anti perhaps un-precedented scene in the history of psychoanalysis. Though Iwould lit r to, 1 cannot do justice either m the veiled richness or tothe bottomless iru.Ik (hi.% extraordinary "M000logue," duringwhich a historian has dated to cross A Inuit before whic.11"ordiriaryhiste,rians - [861 have always been intimidated, I sh. o ll hob I r1] self,once again, iv the instance of rhe archive. And I shall L]nrl I1tccll ^

teach nothing to. the author of this great "Monologue with Freud'as I velittne a few rvitarks which, obedient in turn, I will grouptinder thr. iitEe oi -Hcl•rerred SFI dic IWu. "

\ V h rich' No longer I ) the obedienct.• "atter thr fart - Frcui Ispeaks of in 'Totem and Talmo, Jio longer (2) the out: YertislialtnispeAs of (that of Sigmund to Jakob. his father), bur indeed (3) thedeferred t.1 iILI v of 'erushilr]Ti irk respeci to Freud.

!..c1. Lis Lleseribe this tjJllt of rcpeiitton with. the words Yerush-al:11i re 5C.I'VC5 fair Firuid:

E. Yr:rush:11mi in turn addrcptc.s h whr an last and 'bulatediy -

Prettcrs phantom with. filial respect-

2. 1 It- rvturnsiit ttl rib to the ninirnsi•c study Of the3_ Ile - nuiintains his int1 peradrnec. Misnicking a -doubly fir:

titions piirricide, lie argues bitterly with a In:1Stcr whose psycho-analytic rules and pTelnikes. he accepts, He also interiorizes the41iscutirm! of the piittrarch, at least in respecting the "acecirchngto you" of the lc diarakh. ralritudn: terfitini4.1 All thesesigns remind Ills rh.tt licT11:51131nli also ' 4 1.1dal[ctily obeys the Iii 114:1':

whether he wants to or not_ I le identifies with him while intcritir-izing him like a phantom who speaks in him before him_ He offershim liospitality and goes st1 far as to confess LO ltim nor without

fri-,24.ir: -you ...tic rt-al and, kit ine, curiously present" 181 J.Now kl us 1 iu L farget, this IS also the Fili.intoin of an cxpert in

phantoms. The experi had even stressed that what is most lint:rest-

ing in repression is what one does not nianage to repress. Thephantom thus makes the law—even. and more than ever. whin,

OEM contests him. Like the father of Hamlet behuid his visor ., and

by virl4.14: 4.,f a vicar rtfccr, kill: specter secs without. being secs. fierims rel:SL ;1 iSIWC Iltirri .11 110111V. I le rinds am]repeated in the very protest one clain-is to oppose to hint, He dic-

tates even the words of the person, who add rrsses him, for examplethe strange word "engrossment": after having used it to translateFretitl's licht,:c1 confession about his impregnation by biblical cul-ture, Wriishalmi applies it now to dehberatel y CMr not, todescribe - his own investment in this archive r4 Freud whieh has

become. a sort of ]dale for him, a spectral Billie. 1--Te speaks or his

"engrossment": by or in Freuifl. corpus. With a gesrurc in which itIts inipassible to disc<rit butween lOve and hate, but also between!hen simulacral doubles, Yeruslialmi painfully, laboriously justifies

Fretkl, one W4 ail alnio0 say in nskilig for his fo rg ive-ness. He even recalls, if one must believe him, that, unlike otherinheritors and wayward sons, he has not looked for the secrets nrl • e:akitcsscs of the Master, of ale one Whin remains, like Gocthe.,

tlirough the. - -au.tobingi 3[1.1111C41 I 1 minds, a careful COFIC eilh: I " :

113VC nu t rei rninaged L ELrough your hie in searc h of flaws. Thuncovered by others in recent years have not affected my eng E US513 ken( in your uncommon achievement, which continues topursue lift' "like an ghost." IS/

fir

to :1'..111rsr..111 for examplc, more than hall a cciitiny

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that possibility. lt is this that we arc speaking til here._ It is this,truth, that we crust answer for.

',err cannot' reconstitute litre the virttial ex<liange of Lpacstionsand answers ser in motion in such a "Monologue" on the subject ofthe very to:zeta of Moses. Thuc; entire tal mudico-psychoanaly tic dis.-cussion is lasdnating and passiotialle. But can one not then say thata priori it shows Freud to be right? Can one nor claim that the verystructure of this scene., the formal logic of the arguments. the to1_14 01( Ty arid the slratrgy of the interhx:utors or spectral)shov... Freud re -; p?ght, even and, perhaps-. abOve :311 where he iskV Wilk, 110111 the point ul view 131 ... H:aerial [rut li" I Even where thedead pCJ'S.IJU may be Will to dcalh F.1 Cud hkc .so many othifn,

from Tig1oS4..6' where ltc is accused of so many short-

Coillin•s by the one who proceeds while teprariltg "I repeat: I donot blame you' [981?

-To do tustice." Yet again, I. would like to but cannot ego justice

to Elie inleiisc and rich discussii,n staged by this final. - Monologue."'El I shotilli fail to do it, which sect its to nit: 4.1111(_Pitilliattly iiieV UAW,

it is not title only to sonic limit or another (personal, fatttial,, alasreal), it is not due even to the lack of time. This fatal "injustice" isdue to the necessity of showing, a priori, the person occupying the

poiitiorl ul Freud here to be tighi, This is the strange %ioltiicewould like to speak of (also out of cuncern fur justice, because Ishall no doubt lx of Concerri for justice) while wakingmyself ill TOCII gklilly of it a priori.

Simultaneously fictive and effective, taut, dramatic, as generousas it is Oriplaclible. th115 "Monologue" clots not deprive the other ofhis rigid to si walk, Ncit Without injustice can one say that Fr C41(1 hats

rii) C11.1.11Ce to speak. F le is ihe first to speak, in a (Crtillik

the last word is offered to him. The right to speak is left, given Cir

1(I- hint I 'MALY ruses] 6101'5 to justify any one of these threewords. What interests me here, in the first plar.e, is the nearly'}br-

mai fatality of a peL to, niative effect.

fI %hall II;INC 10 limit myself to this Formality, renouncing thedetailed discussion oF the ronlynt of tile analySeS. But before IT-turning to this structural fatality, I would like to give an ex-ample, at least in [larentheses and only as an indication, of what

Naturally, liv all Lippe:tonics, .kvc. lw1irvr 1.1:c know that the Phantorso dors r?rd fecpmrri. I le will never 1iglin I C'SpOrld, Verushaltitiknows it. (Ali the ST onLgiii of mare ilian one reason. Frekid willnever again speak.

I. 1 lc will [weer again respond in 1111.0 rtiture because he hadairradY responded, and 1.Acti with what Yeruslialiiii wants to hearfrom Ilk. liesearhcr.

2. fie will never again respond hecntise he will have ken in apusillon to Filan e, already, ai lwayj respondcd.

3. I Ett ttitII licver again respond because it is a plialituM., thus 2person.

4. I le tiS ill ricvcr respon4 I lict'aus.r it is di(' phantom, 4).1a fl rialvst; and perhaps because the analyst withdraw En thisspectral position, the place of the (lead person, from which, lenvivite to sp4....ak, he Makin one Spcak, nc!ver responding except to silerne iiintscl , only bricig slictic It) let Ellf! .speak, lung enoughto transfer, to intriprrt, to

So here k 4vhat wr belief'{ We 4:now ai Icast„ here is dlr. appr:i r.ante: the other will never again re.spond. Now in spite of thesenecc:.ssii les, these oh 'too 5 facts and these substantiated certitUdes, inWile of 411 the IC;INS111ring assLo a I LCCS which sitich a knowing or sucha believing•to-km:0.v despriliSCS 1.0 its, thitoliSh diet'.], the phantomrontirtiLlus lo !circa k, he clues 11.01 1- C ipc1.1111, but he 71)caks. Aphantom speaks. What dory this mean? the firs' place oir in apreliminan' 'ev , this en4.-.aras that williCnit respondi n g i.t disperses ofa response, a bit like the answering machine whose voKe outlivesus 111011'1CM Lif ft.`4:0141in1 : Call! the L.11.114i.f pi..TS.4. 1 13 LS dead, now.wherh...-r you kni.ox it car not, alid the voice responds lo you, in avery precise - EiChinn, 5inlictuncs Cheerfully, it instructs you, itcvt.11 give you instructiuns, trikike &A...Lir:1.00ns co you, add rc.•ss youricqutsts, prayers, promises, trilunctions. Slipposing, cow:4.w) nem(ifiro, that a living being eves iesponds in an absolutely living . 1.11.siinfinitely aclj tilarnicip witholut the least ailornatisin t

cvei Living an archiVal lechilkilie overflow the singularityof an evc. nt„ we know in any ease that a sprctral reSponwin lo r ti tre [ by a techne and inscribed in an archive) is always possible,There would be neither history nor tradition ILCrr culture vi,-ithout

this discnNsion icilL1141 IOC. At the beginning, cif dic "Monologue withFreud," 1.1.aving himself on cernun citations of the Hidrash,shalmi proposes a lirst conclusion r( "Professor Freud":

Moses had actually been 11)Y our forefathers.,would the murder not have been repressed hut on the C011-

trary—ir would have been remembered and recorded li.e.„ ar(hived], ugerh. and implacably, in the moct vivid detail, the

quintessential and ultimate exemplum of the sin of Israel's diso-lk..dience.1185]

This in my opinion, is the sinews of the argument in this book.to a ffirm this, '11".cruslialini must again suppose that tlteCintl ra-

dicticfn between the act or inernpOly or of archivization on the onehand and repression on the other remains irreducible_ As if one4. Lould nut, prcetselv.recali kuid aDLELIV.0 dire Very iliingl.3.11( N.•.1('`5Se5,

archiwc it while repyess.ing it (because repression :15 ;irchivi-43-

tion),. Iliac is to say, to archive irdhcrturse, 10 repress the archive whilearchiving the repression., Otherwise, of course, and !lint -IS the wholeproblem, than according to the current, conscious, pa tent modes of

archiv ization; (ahem/Eire, (hal is to say, according to the paths whichhave called to pi.y L;.1] V tic deciphering, bitiutli ntp.sychualialy-sis itself. I II )1A, 4:;in Vcruslialini he sure that the intirdcr in sitietion.has not been abuiklantly recalled and .3 rchived rrentembeicil 411 Ili]

recorded") in the inctriory of Israel? How can he claim to prrwe anakvicnrc of archive? How doe one prove in general an absence ofarchive, af nut in relying ail classical nurins (presence/absence ofliteral and explicit reference to this Lit to that, to a this of to a thatwhich one supposes to be ideritkal to themselves, and simply abse n t.acitemrly absc. rir, if they are t1c Ft present, acurilly present.,how can one nor, and why not, take intu account tenconiciote, anditior.c generally Virlifal arChils.T5)? Now Yeiuslialini knows- very welliliat 1:reitcr, itHcntiol.1 iS tta analyze, across the apparent..1b5.en.(4.-inerilory and 4411N:hive, all kinds of sylnivioins, signs, figiloe,i,taphurs, and metonymies that attest, at leam virtually, an archivaldocuincrirmion where the "ordinary historian - identifies none.Whether One gyres along with hirn or not in his demonstration,

Freud Lluitilc4.1 111;11 the .111Uttler 01 Moses Arctivcs,

documents, .symptoctis in the Jewish. mernory and even in the113C131.01le Of humanity. Only the texts of this archive are not read -

able according to the pat Its c if -ordinary Itistory".111.(1 this is the verytele.... a CI Ce rIf 1)5yellifka n ;11 if Si 5, if it has one.

Let us go further, keeping close to the example chosen by

Yerushalmi, who has the courage and the merit, the temerity eve(1,to cite nut only the Hible hilt -rabbis in the Midrash - who arc stillmute "explicit - than the Mille in testifying at least about an al-

leolpird murder

Anti the entire aunnaunity thrcatened to stone them with sfarrer

(Numbers 14:10). And who were they Moses and Aaron_ Min

he verse continues] rehrn the glory of . Mc LGliar Uppearcel IrAr the(cat tr••neeting burin all the chriduerr of' Israel]. This teal•iv:a us thatthey lilt'' I.sraelitesT were throwing stones and the Cloud (or the

Lord's t;lory I woo Ed intercept them_

Yeruslialmi seems to conclude —and to want to convince Profes-

sor Freud —that if in fact they walited tea kiR MOWS (awl A411 ma),and if this intention has indeed remained in the memory and in

i he archive, what counts is that the Isrmlites did not "actually" killhint- This conclusion appears to be doubly fragile. And even fromthe Midrash point of view in question_ First, without needing to

con' arks: 11:5y019anallySi5 yet, rceogni-Le that if the mur-der did not take place, if remained virtual, if ii only almost tookplac.:e, the inientinti to AN u.w effective, actual, and in truth imam, -

phrhed. There was acting our, the symes were thrown in bract. the-vcontinued to be thrown while only divine intervention intercepted

them. Alit crime was not interrupted at any moment by Israelitestheiii,elves, going I VI..1 iotther than. their fl.ispended intention, or re-

nouncing in the face id the sin. There was 1111LIS nor only ins-en/ J:01J

bur attempt to murder, dieViVe. (lariat attempt, which only An ex-

terior cause {a jurist would say an accident) diverted_ Second, and

this time taking into account a psychoanalytic logic, what differ-i < is there betwcen a murder and an intention [0 murder ( ab rwc

I'll if it is acted out, hilt even if it is not Milli-der, even if the M101160111

does not hi:Tonle attempt to murder)? Murder begins with the in-ientirm to kill. The unconscious. does not know the difference here

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mr1+1.1.+11**W..r....P11.—... '.11 '. 111111=MiLMW■.a.MMAKA•ra■OlP=•■--r.- - -

15.r.V.Ve4:111 ii C 'A 01.Lial and the LITE inLentil..1111 .111{1

rcrtAirl J11 (1.11s111 i.4154), by ili• pi al 'vas( 4.1tics nast Innari

on the manner in which the conscious (as riWe.. AS LPN Or III(

InOr;111. 1.; arc:or-11rd to it) distributes the relations of the vii Lual. IA theiiii•nrion.al„...incl 0.0 actoal- VV will nu•eir have hE L llttl , Ivc 11.2 YI:

111011 ui irild'5 Iwgitri, el mixing the ethico coriscilticnees

hi-0311 1.1. 115_ 111 :lily rice, thr. 1.3nrcalsci4,41.1 iniay Furey 144.-]}t liLe incrvii5ry

archive of the intention to kill, of the Awing .13111 Or [his

dcsire EL] kill (as i t is attested by the Texts "ierushalnli hirnself eitcs,

3E) pal 1JiIi ;angular Lher42 has b.r.e n reprc 5-

ILE1(1; bccalks.c a rep. elis.ion Aso ..tr< in rs *I which IL dissiloul.atc".

or cncryplk 11Se What 1114JrC, Yb•C' 5C4: 1. 01•CIE ILL! [Lc repres-

sion i.s.rris not all rhat efficient'. the will w kill, thCailiElg 0110 011.41 ilIC

attempt ECP Tr11.1rdCr Ore avOvir'ed, they are literally iniseribud in die

archive_ ff Moses was noc killed, it is only [hanks to C.;i3(1.

thcium..lves.„ 11)i- 1.5rAdite5, who wanted to. kill iquses, Veluli[d 1.3.2 -yc

kitIci] him: i rvrrvtliing to kill

F^krCie e, Yrri.l.chahni declArecl.: - The

whuthur, if Mows hai.] bcrri Inurdcred in the wilderness,

would have licn forp.A.ien or concealed' [841. And everything in

his 'cm Jusporids .17 2. Now 1115tCad bignifying. as he believes he

Lan 1.1;.11111, Lilt 13Lui Lice did [lot lc...Lye ;Lay 4irch.i .. es it is hil-causeIt chi] ❑ H)it 1.3ke place, it rciL41 the 14:ALs h• ]iii135CII LitcN tocoriehifie the contrary: the inteniiim ti) kill Imo, clfective, die

out also, this left an archive, and even. if there had .110( been, &Cling,

Out (.1.0 the desire, the unco.riscious would have been able to keep th.e

rehivc 0( the [11.3fC criminal intentiOn, of its SU5p:11.Slun. of of iLS

rEpre.ssiork. Ail 1111;5, 11 1.vottld seem, without Itav ii ig Eu 1.Lkt

sicies Ovhi•hl T it17 Mai dOing), hie ciii thy' Illogical !Tailing ii ivwhole of this rirgiuncntation. Ain-W. And to extend the problemirric

field r,in arc/role 12f fAC c...r.Kek..21., in its greatest generality. through-

out and bviond psychoanalysis. The topology and die .nomolog ,„

we have aiLdl.yr_r4 up to !pow were able to ncoessitate., as absp•

]Li(cl.y inaispensahlc 1.11.Cjitti wed crllil: 4.1c . i. ciafiry taf dile

the reality, as they say', of the archived Virr13411

1. -will become of this when we will indeed have IR) re. ri.LJ Lio:_ CE.113

cept of virtuality from the couple that opposes it to aCELIAilLy,

effectivny, or 10 reality? 'Will we 1)e obliged to continue thulking

Ebal Lliece is w.01.11 .1.11k4.111.a r'hive fur (Eic Lial .F.Lar what ]1:1.1,1KEIS

ilk virmal tFric:C ;41.11.1 1 hart.31.)' this ill

prOgiCSS, 13.4.1t It will be necessary, tu keep a rigorous :Account of

other virtuality. to abandon or restructure from top to bottom. our

inherited Cariccpt 'orate archive. The moment has come to accept

5tirriiig in our concinu.i.il archive, anfl iii it cross Li logicof ale imconcci,was - with ri thinking of the

no long.or hy the tradiri.ortil philosnrhicii (3ppiiririll

tween ;'ICt Hncl power.)

11.1.$ FCILI111 ti) WiloiLt WC Called a. 111u111CJit ago the f tat] and

ft/J.01.Iva otpn ail it of al prril.31- 1 1141.[INC FC1A. This .C[1:1:Ct is Chit: i.E.P

the siwrotofy of the '`Nlori,..logue - does, in I lie seem' lit• thinks lie

can organize, while playing or assuming a certain rote in it. This

effect seems to show the phantom to be right, in the very place

where he could. perh;ips, lx wrong arid lose in the conflict of ar-

guments_ nt'i•alie. lilt' 14.TV.:1015, 11114.1 i1 f.01.11.d nor 1)c

anctet loirviiALs 7 ev•rydtinx Say5 1.}011 . 1 7.1110 11L1 the rcl urn L31

phringorms :111(1, %VOICES Of IIALT1ISLINIIIIi, ;1110U! rhr LI I ['MN C

PlgO]1. of Fathur :anti si.313.1 [951_ On C.r.31.3k1 ibis in c.[V01 .11_ SkLch

rcpt.!' "Lion aliC512.1 tI iRL IL lii-51.01- 1. C31, "mai" wll ieil CIO brcauli or - mate.-

rml. Ii Lail " WI1H1 etmlirnis or .1313tonstralles r -

13111 truth or Fro.LA Airkgc.i is nu( Frtucr book, -or tlic argtiiimnt

clepLoyD.1 111.cm with rriorc or less pertinence. It is 150t. the Contents

Of this - FilistrNricol novel"; it is rather the scene of reading it pros

yokes a.rid in which the reader is inscribed in advance. For example

in a tictive monologue %Ouch, in reading, contesting. or Ln caEling

10 Ffrud, repe_its in :Hi t.y.vinpl.nre ilishion the` logic of the tweiN1

ishcrw. six:Orr vi.ts dcscrLIK411:Lrd wIsissicstrucrurr was ni [ler 14)3- inecl."

by die historic rye novel. The Frelid of rhic 1;)..eiffitif ikitrAfing is intierd

Yeriishalrcri`. StrOngi: EC:Wit Of this performative Rpe-

tition, eifectika.tion of this eiwelincne.„ in any

CkIT1L)Ji1 raik:!:1/4„ is R I ui.L T i le intetpretalioli L f (lit

archivc (1)crILL, Cor (L5.. 91.111114, Yerudialuirst__L3L3i_!Nook) can only naLc711_ .1-

its oNerl, namely at given in.lic-ritrince, by

inscrIing itself into- it that is t.i.) soy liy opening it and by enrichingit cflohigh 11 :We right1131. place in it There.

l'icrus11:31.nii`s151,tok, 111,61.0 .1.31g jig iierive nicirtolug rnrt h ke-

kp

longs La theci ITO'S OI 1 =.i cu.(' (nd of Suscs , CU.), 1.•hos• murk.als.4.3 Ca !VIC The err thaL this e{1111.1.15 111115 IllanIC ASO feln.Lill

SpIXIT:11 is 1101- 111.31):1. gellIC•ral 1111(11.111" of every 4111. 1:111VV. By incor-porating knowledge deployed in rrr .t.rcnec to it, the :irc-hiv(•

Jirginents itsell. engrosses itself, if gains in aeiaor la s. But in the

sarnc Sti ukc it loses the . ..kb:White iin11 111Cla-tCX11.1 I alltIllAlty it IL Light

dal') ." 143 ( hie Will IlIC:Vc:1 LFC iiblc LLt 011111:f1IVIWIC it 54.- i1.11 nu r e

r1 air The Archivist prcolliiLcs inure A rchirc, and that thearchive is flievcr •loscrt It opens out of the future,

I low Carl ttirc think about this total repetition,. about rendition ill

general in its I dal ionship to memory and the archive? It is cam 10perceive, if not to interpret, thc iictcsIlly of such a ICIatiOLISIII1p, at

)reuse if 4.)1 LC 1 ISCJCI.LtrS the aRilli•r i .13 I 1.301.1. ral ty auk: is it I veLi• teinjitedto do, \vial repctiiiiiin, and rendition with the past. But it is the

future that is at 1NS11.t! 11C1-(f, and the archive as 311 I Ifi'Cl1.1(ible c-Xpc-

rtruce: l) the fOtUre.And if thefc is a Single 1.1alt abiiiit Which trusllllelll remains

intra•tablc, if thrrC iN :din malion shieli.kd ii Ulll 311 4.11.SCILLYESitill

(])4).1 C11CX1(1311•riC taliiiiiclic), an unconditional nifirrnation, it is the

mill rotation of the I:ittlire ki cnme [Ai t d (ill Fit' 114:11, I prefer say-ing this with the to-eoinc ni the .21...rnir rather 1 han thiz .feetur so asto point toward the corning of an event rather than toward sometwine preNcra).

The afiiI111;11 ion i,t I he umr: this is not :1 1105 111.1VI: 1.11.1:5 IS.

It is nothing utiles than the ion Itscli t he -yes," 111Nlifar ;is

it is the condition of all promises or of all hope, of all awaiting, ofall peels), inati•ity, ol: all opening the •t.iture, whatever itmay be, for science or lOr religion. I ain prepared to subscribe +.v1.111-.011 [CM:3 vc lo Lhis reaffirmation made toy Yeruslialmi. With a spcck

olarocirty. in ihr hack 411 1 roy niiitd, singlc oiarixi&-ty alinota solitary point, which is not just ;my point. I will speciry itmore preci:ijoil in a moment. This unitiue point can be reduced,.ilidC.Cd, Cu tale Unik1L1 ,C.. to the unity of the 0314 or the UnioliC.

Tlic sanic affirmation Of the Butler Lo come is reheated sc'ycl al

liincs. IL coniCS 1134:1: 11•415.1 ;ICC 1.1f(1111,4 thice

;l/50 1S1:1115.111 11311-C pla<cs of opening_ 1.rt us givr thrill th• name

of doors.

The three doors of the future TO come resemble each other to the

}whir of Ctil111.1S14)31, :111C1C12.1.1 1 but they differ between thennelves:least ill that the• ' egularly turn on their hinges to open, one onto

the 0111r1% T 'he'ir tO130-1Ogie thus retnains properly dixorientiv, nriccontintiaily has. the fr. eling of getting lost while retracing one's steps

Ica revenant curses pas]. What is a door tlinEig where it opens onto aHoot.' And above witc.i. a door one has a dr d y Epanwc.1 through,in the pir,sagc of what tt pass, in Idle passage to come.?

In ha riii lig !hem- doors, I think or r.irhrr 1 dream iiiVt'alter !kirk,

jamin. IIl Iris Macs on the Philosophy of ififfory, he designates tin-narrow door" for the passage of the Nlessiah, "at each second. -

And he recalls also that 'for the Jews the future. to come nonethe-le..-N24 slues not LICI....13.111e a huniogeneous and empty time" [ I :2.702].Virlut could he have meant? (.11, :at least foi the time whni

can we understand iii this rcri-mrk or make it say, ihis remark

ahont the door of a future to conic whose time would not [lchutliogt iwou.s?

Allow Inc thus to 10C-aliLC and iduntify villa' I call the three doorsL1 !die future. to aiinW, 41. I bc]icvc I Can C01.111/ 111C121 in the "Mono•

...•ith Freud, -

The 'aft door opens, of cOlir se, at the last sentence r he I mot:. Aremarkable and necessary location, decisive precisely where noih-ing is 4.1ecided, It is not by thanct that this last door takes the formof 3 [Frill Clic procui5c of a ..tc,:rtt kept secret . What happcits

wli•n historian prolniscs to kccp st,N,:rrt on tlic subject of an ,i1-

CltivC which is yet to ix- established? Who does this? Is he still ahistorian? 'Fri whom does he prrirnise> 13clore whom? Refiii-e.. whal

law? 13cloni: what specter and before what witness does Yerushaltriipretena to commit hiinscli for the future to keep Freud's responsesecret when he declares to him Ili t154.1 13.S1 words Of tlic 1..1,110k:

" I P 1CaSe tell me, Professor, I 111011111SC 1 gellOrl ' l reVe011 p11,11 ;tirwcr to

How could the person who pr oiniseN a secret to a specter steeldare to say he is a historian? We would not believe him, even if ht.

pretclick.LI to address thc Prollestit as a colleague or it a -taster. Tin!

11 .154.01 .1.;131. til.K;i1Cs 115nly 4)1 the pas.!, YCIUSE131.111ii says this. hillasclf al

the end of In., first of his texts that 1 read, a text about th.• Mar.

69

ranos, with whom have Lil•ays secrelly dun'ianyone) and whose crypto-J otiair history licitly resciiildus that of1.1,5yclioanalysis alter ;ill. Regarding- the "last PF far ranos,"

•Ell.C$;

But are they really lithe last'? I-fistory„ have recently %reit,is fiot always rational, it is rarely Ion-seeable. Tricfierfire., if? Ar il?

of ghr appeizrant-ei, irliull•f remairm open_ The. hi.storirra:r rac,k, hoc -is In fry to linelerltand Mr past_ It is tune for the historian (o

step aside to lei the speak_ I. firelintr and 'illtirshalin.i •1.1,my

At the daft of this text on the Martanos (Land icrushalini alwaysd.iLes lixicc at t h inO,Diciit of signing or al cliiving his works, ac-cording ter two the one and Ilie 4,11.11.el oitc), voila!is 4at iSSLI • f .1:11" 111111 is kiting the images :1,EIC;Ik in a 1 -micpls •...I photo-graphs., that is, ;mother species of 2i-chive, Bin each time aas such decides to "step aside and let . speak," ti:r example try let;11 photograpliiiC SpeCter Of Fickid's pllatiballi in 1 hie triOnuloguespc!ak, it is the sign 4)1 respect before the fui Lift! tl) COMIC Of Illt!11.IttirC 10 •01114•.. ThilS he is no longei ;L historian. Gi lod SC/13C tell%111- these: a.5 no history Or :.1 rchive future to conac, A Instorion

as StIL:13 nevcr looks TO [h{, fititi re, which iii the end does noi concernBrims. [hit meaning something else aliogether, is there a historian ofills larerisrisc..a IliStortan 4)1 the first door?

TlIC seCOrzil r1001 ]Cabin a (10tIble defillitiori open to the In-lure:both that of Jewishness and that of science. 1)efinition crpcn to afUtlAit~ radically to COtne, WiLit:111 i to Say inacterinin.ate, deturritinedvidY by this oPriling uf . dic [mitre: to (on kC- 111141C1C.`f i ati U.L3 lin CC-1,111). and doubly poicritialized, ininal ion en abyinc.

hie one ham', it il) 41 C14:/111113{'S One ind•rerniniatinnE the 'tlic. r [Jewishirtess 5r1C.1].Ce 211(1 science hyMc this esseliCuil passage a second time:

l i foremeir Freild p at this poilit I find it futile` to :ink whelh•r., gu-rictiCally Of Strli•lurallY, P5Ychi.,;1.11.:1.1VS IS is really a Jewish sCielli:C 1.that we shall know, flit it at all knozeabIe emphasisr, onlyWbC11 Iii11(11 lUttlIC work has kc.`11 dune_ Mticli will drtiencl,

Of COLLIS(' 011 I LO 'IN the very tcrilis A-wish ... Ind sciracc JEC to lie

ddincd•

This rernark followed an allusion 1cM inninch flittlre work' and it

Opelleti t.0 infinity the gaping of the future in which the. very pos-

sibility Of Iin45w(edgc remained conditional Cif it is at All k now-iliblr"). l n 1.147i 11114: tlttiniticrn Of tlic two tends clef cm]s onthe fin LUC. In this equation with 'IMF Link rinwrIx, rink- the future ofscience, in particular Thai c.pf psychoanalysis. will say whether this

science is Jewish, because it will tell LIS what science is and what

lc...rashness is. Kit only the fkil.1.1tc IA . Judaism ((Jr ratlicr of intcr-ininAle J•wishness) will be ,able to guide and precedc a scietilxJudaism (or r:arher of Jewishness), intici-(1 a Jewish wienee. Now

since the fiature of sci.ence can thus he correlaiivt• io

tlicre is t very task, or every chance,. that in this logical aporia, theglIrStkOft is destined rtniain wt1.1101.1t response; without responsein any CaSc 111 the form of theoretical kilowI•tlgt or of cpisthni.

f•Tence, fon rhr +Whey /reefed,. :11 second [circa' Of intiC(Cini nat 6) 1 1 It i5readable. in 1 Fic several suspensive words that leave a pussibilily

open: that this double question which hinds Jewishness and sciencedoes nor come wrshrn the province: of 1(nowiedge and is hetcrligeneousto all dieurctiCal Slat co IC I It: " t han we shall know, if al all lowv-

iibir.'" Having arrived at these last I ines 'Clic book, We still Cititilotsay ..inything pertinent abollt what hinds science and Jewisliness,about what StahiliZe5 and guarantees the CCifieeptA (and this thoseof Ihe ECIti lin which are dependent on them). Norhing that seerns

relevant, I will say in passing that this is what neutral-ii-cs Perkli 55 in Val idatea all that Yerushahlii hatl waritcd to dein-onsiratc up to this IH,ilat. This is What thrcatcris it, at IC:LSE 'Ll3 it sth e-nor V;k1kL(.. if not in its draniatic effect or iI performativerichness_

Kul there is something more serious and 1)€t his littter: il3 I II

future, it is VC15: EFOSSillie. that the solution iii this equation twULIkILOWIls will not corny. within thc 1.111111CrACtiCa.1

CLigg: p diva is 10 Of a declarative theorern. This k what is sug-gested by it IN at silI kElfiWah1C, IP This epochal suspense gathers

in an act all the clingy of tliought, an energy of wirtuality,, for onceteriergria of a dynarnit).. The intensity 01 this suspension is vertigi,

•.and it giv cs YErt .igu giving thy only C.D3liClil

Whirl) 1 11r. FLitcirc to C433 11C it -VC il (4.1 COLTIC. The

C(1111(Iii.14)31 ctrl WIliCh the future rt rn,LIriS [0 (f)111C i. Rot Only that it

not loc k1L(P4VE3, but that it not be knueziable a strzh. Its deter' ii.inatio3k

SlinR114./ L1 13 lilligc.r cr..,n1r Lincict rho 4}1C1cr LI LK...Pledge (or

prcknowledge hot torhrr 3 coining car an event whit+. one

ditr../05 or JPh-rtnr to corm scring aJiy Lhi3 Ciairrl-e) in C

pe Eql Ce whishti is 11c.terogeneous to an taking. note, as to an). hori-

zon of 25 51.3(11: that i5 to say, LE) tizable theOrcrris n5

snit. l L LS a question of this lot tO Cuttle art:IILVE:

1.L..iL1;cl I L.LS (Ilwr4:kikli45IL to iliC 1 C.LLI.1. 13 of wir.h.at rn die rEcorti of 111LC

prcsciiic.cvl wt i;1t is or kravr b•ciL ibaggraly prcsvrit. this Ilia:

0.114 1 I diSlingli1S1 . 1 it E34lic..-411y from all rnes5i3CliS3 11_

Mu rd don, is also. the first, and w ILL al.1 Lady passed

Lllrotigh q. A •E:IN ;Air, liCr, YerLIS11almli had LICE.510yCtl 1.15C .11 . 1.1('S -

(3 4. 1 11 4 3 1 Ow illtUrC kliE)CtITLIS. r JIid '14 1 114111 1110 11.14]

lic- 141 in 4. pposil to Fr421A E an cxricriCILCC (1.1. ClIC ruEitrc.

Or Of hopcfullne , s 2.ie.enrs to him to Lic• ;Lt once irre.rhiciblc

to oedipal. repetition aiid irreducibly, cear.qudyr erelteibely firCtelish,

[TO-per 'CO ii not DO - Judaism. " The sUbiitk or his

honk sa;..s. ludaisEn 1 .cruninable lubenniniiiilc..". i tit " 11(4:Jtin.ii-

alitii CIL:Arty 111.4k r ks thai if IhAclaisin is. Lcrliillible- , jrwiskinuss is in-

trrrnin.arily 1901. Et L;ulli •}'iV''- Judaism. If -.1 :11-1 .viirvire li PS Ill'ii-

tqg.c, which is irl Say, in a 5cirt.r, not without arciikr, cvcri ii Ilkis

archive should retuairi wilth041t ultura[c and ;without actuality_ I-"oribcte is indeed a (kit-I- mining and e.e:3LLC2

Cai .114:41. 151.1(1-e!..N; i1 i3 ulicady giVi.- 11 rim I ilc.pcs. ikcrr AilNait air l c]tc]1 r. And.

4:7,•;....14ic Jcwi:11.3it-k% S1V) 111.141 111.1-1 mist;ilkcii ria•rging with

rt . li.9,i011., 411 vii (..4).d. Now air

Jegrvi5hn-rv.: !li:it dCWS not @wait OW future' i5 procisel.y the

for thy. C, the opeding oE . reLition. to LhC 11K. i:x

Nucoldie i • iturc.. This i.$ w1).ar Ilic proixtr ro thy - Jul.-I''' . and

14 .ilo LW; 13 1A 1111 1 y ]ICED{', E 1 11:1). :N "1114 51,C For Litt 11 -10.11[C: E l tit

1. 11114 . .11.111 of liopc for the fi]tnrc"19511_

And this is wylLe•c.. in the nnirrat the opcning to rite future, the

discu5Fion With 1reud seems .1) be closed, While iu LEIC Last

lines or rilc. bixEk i t is kv,prd "Jcwish' (which Call be LEic ailjcelivc

for 11-rwishiness WCII :as for [4141:11srli)1liar 1-f-ruLihaimi 5L1r5 VC/I] ;4 115

to be defined in the future. Here k one 1-pr passages that a remost important to us on this su.bjecr. sh211 ernpliosizz (Main

phrases:

Tridrrd, slit charm or it ;LII is dial Occli[51.1N is El 3' fri)311.:k[irls ti]

the Rihle iisclf, where the entire relationship lictwcuri Cod rincl

Mari and esprriAlly betweeri God and Israel is the tense

agora of Father and SOIL 'he dram,vic dith-rentiv lies Ywe err

Un'edISI and pre-sem., but bu the a 12.thc1raBoca ul s pet E .hope in f1 firogyr. The-yr rs cr prmarkabie verse ":.,0 the law uf tht

ptuft hrts fola•hi 3: 24) I thin; ix my crriphaxic., rind ITere i one ofChic , 3rchiwec which .,urcst to that a3 ki if:had On of Li 5[;ecific hopefor the ruiltre"-an archive, according to am which

..11111 IC 1. 4 V.`" E1 WOTLI is very serious] which expresseshy.ricillt- VISIrkr1 [my V1 1 sE)1141Si51 tILIL i5 nut r3.3L1154 r

fJof :Ids() rill pilaSiZe 11]Iis efLOI1 CCS.kii0111 Which oixlin ont•1

L11{, abyss which it denies.]-ire the imphe-cies of any

of his. predecessors. .A11. the others, we Might .ser a posit an LiltiMate 3 r..L.C.111.11:1L1111 of the Oedipal conflict berween Isra,..1 and Uo4;.

Malachi dloc.s s•ti. a Eso On ih.c lu'h LE of . pLircly -heshw

feu elz- 1 01 /Menet.' fcv 1.1 14".14,?? oaf ilL'Uft.e.en ". .(1'1{: S11.111 .1 -Cferflrik this:

[wart cif ]=irliuis with S1313S ;MCI 11C of snits with their 1n-thers). 1951

J ore corifidun draft I ...vuuld almit the meaning here in all.

rigor tPl • "tmiquc," "cxpliLidy.," and "purely butniin, - Yertishalriiiconririncic is thr poini EPELJI'r':

L -diekith. 1...et it h according ro you 14)11# religi-on, the grcat.JULE...i41n. has nr •uture. But ychi.t Ls [ht .! future. of and Ck•

Llipu? .rtL.:31,i iv the CILLI u • yutlr )1(Iikitl ., and you !WE S.:1).'

[I 111.51. killiCC again, 111:Crushalilai recurds 5i1C1ICC 5.1.:111C) 11C

Will 31(311ellICICSS I31.akr speak, ElS31.1:SEPliCidV, ilt the CCP11

ional, in s.iery next sentence]. ghrmid you Zell me that,

.1. 19tieerir they ha?: nr.1 hare, f Man ARTA: y•ply-ykrni may word

4;

14)1.1 semi Ivy (lqui.T.u.3.)1) uls!epnf 411 gup..pA1aA.D33UE1Oua.1 0] Ape .1

3-1 ,3A% inaAjt..sv .L.R.), p ap Jo Noscie 1.1L

-111Scr ()Ask I sa11111 ,ElkitlEKIvai i7.►1 put; sapniTos o..5.1./ 'Wolin lax.) ("mu

1>ia3P 11I's;1 11 1 . 4 csil1 3 x.) .roj 111,41.1s a jo ['rum!

- 1-511UE 319,..10 uai. trot liczIn b 'E! Rem. I] - 1k11_111rt1s Ann moi.ilvo 11 r1Irti

.dr;sir Jules ..)Ip •41•01111pi.1u JILUeS altp ‘A: fi.F!.,1 e 4 4-.41k. pinynn

.evioN.1ai:1cl 0) lour `[ -JeJsi IA [rj n [UP

.91 :LiolintiL1 111 - siLil 3(i Apslim pen; JAIL I s :310111)

I.111 11T011Vtll 1111F SRI] ]inifdliii itivakti .ralj ray'

spahati .m.1 SI? Julasiir ;I:rut-1, 13,0,019 si poi)

1,13AD Dui )Li1 'Lep Plus] 14l3Due 1.n A30)S111.1

1El " Cl ! (11t5 i ) .D 1 1.1 11)...)p3JU S! -7J ulti[Up •)104Li orsu

e 11- 1 P n71 1.147.+,1 !roll 7,1..) 4.4.13.Pyirifin

111.1113 2illli1P114TOS isrd .10 D;pitTris

Aes PIM) zuo P111. Jo .DS'EOs pEn..19

4 .41 r 0111 9533 ..)13t:We-1 1 ) 'an') 4j00..141 AtiElLuElp) . ..)JuzipiA;) Nur_ku

-1"P--14) ..r"urra.Jp it ) 1 n 1 ?:■irr. -4-1.311.1 ' 11 /cule01 tiullita1.11(IS SE -zeni

ay jt, 173ic1ns ,)Ll] LJrl a:Igralialjlp r Jo .rriurtap 319 113111m

1 11.1111:1.1c11 pqaelt. rti 3-2fif1f1 Pff11,714 .72Irssrti )t]1

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se 1)11r arty Se g i;143EXI s . pla1reisni3A Jo J3IL.110.1.117 03 el ‘Ott gEJ11.1013J

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Imo Op LOIN' [KW TVA MEI .1_111111.1 [1117:00111 1i■E3.11.1 . 1.1.

11. 1 1 .1A H1110 Intl np 4)1 6E11 11 -Dun I SC ILL 3EiIrs• s7411 411 11.1%01) 31.1Er.)

)E . i! se )s-19 tnitim plait 4 p.iiiirivirl.MA 'in

-pinapess„)wisImDi ja lien ontmun 1)111(1.3 )11110',.

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▪ 11111 ErJ1:11(!t311ri s! 11. 3t.i)

, PS-1.30 15111 ac'cl. sr ia[chlrrx.;) nj pp] ur.)13

ay Ho 43:tepl lsJti 3111 '41110111E1r ,plirs

T siu3,3Did 'uol1rEr.1.19j1'• 1riirCin putsmmi •tiltai i FOE 1st:

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ApspJid '311.1 1L11111 DI") %11131.1104.1 1.1111A4. 113S.,{111 kilk31UO3 Eirefe DA.10

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marim,p rtcr 3 1.11 jo E%-1 . 1,IJI1h1Eln purtto.rr

alp 'WI) mil 39 pinny, snti J . ;Imo I)] all -019 at' ELMJ1 c,Infic 1L1.1.,55.

JO 1110 AVM. lj13S.11.7.0 01 ll DY]rif111(110' DJIRrip 4 1r 3.:):11j:).,1 LA mu! di) !

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-4nthrl11t ;mu . stmt T0 5 3-;) 11.7)nrtrun .rift 1,ii11r.11131-.1 abmir

III1S '3-11E111111 pirmoi .51flUnki0 311] ptir s,[1311

lirki 1 lip) ap gLiL141,CPA; 1.10 `1.101211pi jo ..)rrilni will of)!DIM- p09 atp niipikpul uo su0K.E3}uc.11 ,

DIN's 01 t(prai SI !it! irrirsni airk vi !!;101(31,)1.N [me re)i,'114...011E1

ion .).(1 lunnutnirljn ji) no! wnirlir -PEI! 1 1,1u1 it:L311.11Ctill! Lunjle Jo

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Ai) EJJ Luouutual[Jv i kloixeur.r rye / UPI] 11.!

11.11{3 [11 51 1 1 'a(1,-4] s1L11 jo ppotr; se '111'..511U0)Ell run! pplrola ! Enulir s! 1E Inv .1.1431v5.rcy9p. IIE Luc.).! ''!..N.A.R.ii;INI,Dr 1}11

11 Sall imp Jo ; s311rip}43 [tue arie:]3ltA 'pm NI ]i El; Ill!

11C3111 LieUOIlipuomn Si ufypeulir. iir •:).111inj „Iv nl .1(101.1 pur.Luisiepilf ft 1ra3Is1pc1 11.11E1 3 111 :11011PLiElLiirt lerinli!E)

• W troecsiusti] j p-TREIDX..) SE

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'faryr

hrr, EO, Iq sv.in ti s:yin c1 imp _ ail ) I

-nj aril u!3tp 3n4i 4(unn)c)p 4171.0!) prpti 'uoig

-LI3J) 111 f yipni 0-7(15.Ad .1.11 `SAES 1.1)t1.).1:1 311 sP.

)rp r 7 trrrept.' f go 1111 .19 Ion mom!. `SS3litli:151,31 SIIMErie0.r.ariti

)N. 111.1i atp ..:151,11,31-11111.. 'SIMI Jill k ISr.)[ p Teti Asi

.11,t0 % le i ] 'tiol , 7/4 rrn'road r/2 A? ;feud Y114ty9ro I Lit0..0 Jtryi dpr.atiFsqpIX .01 ry,D 1111 lr n

07-410e/ JO EIV.Yr1 f,1 qAd

1,4

JCIA:15111KSS IL111.C11111L121i1L), ic-erythitig, he belief in the existence .11.1 .

tlFic C411.1.111c x rEC, e24 4:c[1( orCIII•cLI LIME LI •

Vel 111471 3 % tliE•r1.11r5 116 91.t 1.c.41-.F11.1..)frCi I.' it is Doe conhiced wil h allsAti(e privilege, the Ali:.uniqueness in thc experience of the [Ifonlise (the future) and theinjunction or rho non.. (the paNt). But the two. are not added or

ii c donlic.lea 4)n. die ci, It

been Int aitItiveti event, 1.x2i•ausc tutu L1111115(11011 c L151: LW 1535.

prc.-sciiircl rnir•rArar cis. If iiitta ;1.15

iclilinc`tion of . iricrniiry, uirh rir 1.11,11)ont subslrate, thal 'due two

al)MELite prixilc.-g.r5....irc hound 111{• CLLir. gal ch 01 }lief_ A'S if 6.1)(1inSeribcd or11.:?' One !hung in(E) lute nicrilory Car srngleprrypir ;AndCrf 41.1 •1411C itoevpie-. dic •1..atifc 7 I cicicunlacr 10 rC3E1LE111.3C1 11I•

(MC. AEIL1 -pcoplc," Lit I ill rp NC.151CILCC, 01511.1.11.1 15151 1. i5L7

C151110L'iVE'll] Of 0111 151 . the- LIE1E5TCCE'PLit'13LC(1. uniqui . rx...ss of thisFtere i k 4.I..11,11 call Lint (WINO idinary a(CribilLi(Pii. ern I I

subject of which 1 will keep a large ilumber of grave questions inICSCJWC. Sr - MC '131: ItitC3L3 1.L3VC .31.1 Calkal ur dirneo•3 .1.011 7 1)1.51. LI5C): til C 1 1.L.PE thE 1..1 111V 011C1, in 3l aiEC r_1135'LL.IL1 5 LIE

gcncy. I woul..1 Ii.lvc likyd to sikel1C1 IML7rs, in truth an

Inc.clitntillg twltlle ircirohling liefore this sentence:

Only in Israel. and nowhere else is the in Onction 10 remembertell as a ft ligitILIS ialperativeLo an entire people.. [9]

TerW: COO ror1.1; Elm! E:crillik bc.forr iii1 sentrn(e?wander if it i )1.3ct. -'ulirq710 Col.11C1 asiurc<1, 17 what ar•

chive, that it is just.. this sentence? lust with the justice that I'Certi5h-..ilini 5uggc'ts prolot.nudry kild<C(11 he! 1.11.1.-...niposilt

of lin get! in ' :" L rucl kkr2 VC1 V •IOSC tea V•1.3;11. EIC nays. duct'. in

1ELIS 1015,L.1141 IELLACTL1.;111)• 7 1.15 1150 10-r111 Cif a CiLJCS11.1 51L. 1' 114( 1 Ise

rm.] of the [los t.scrijil r,f ZJAhr.ir, Cllr ;r11nr question 171 e11et•1 Ic.qo-

11. I Ihn.r. lirr iny E';111, 314 It...1111y ill Felre r.1" Ir•i •rrri Fr , r.T, I I I I'd t. 1

n.ituac.c just ice.. the justice which excecds knak also requires Elie law. in 1.1 . ic dime-

4_11 . Ella act iLlielli5OFF, of res.isianc.e rosgrt Mug, wlictIlidi klli S. be ul Ll5c

LEI i II ri r lieni in grcir iir sat 1Ex rim r cruller lics5Filc,15Yilii.; s71

notes. - Is it Ex*sible Eli the antonyin i l L fürgt L ring ' is •L(1.1

h CrEiStiCe " I J I :7 11.

• hi ILlciri about Ibis justice, I wc•rldur, iLE4:)1.15E,

the scEllTrIci.:.4 resc-Tve fc ir is FOCI. 1649th Ehc ruitire and the 1)...1 ,4zr,r reir.•. both hopt (" ;Lnticipation of a specilic hope for the In-Lu.st") Ard the duly Of ' IL1C115017 1" 411C to resrien-therl), as ,

1.4thadi 4ti out.] Lae 1:Lltlnr gierm.e, krael :3b a pew it* :Mild

I1/41'.)4L I ill its P',114.111 1y ( Ho[11'.; Esrac] E1155VIICECC1S.C" "as a rcligii)10.

11 All entire j1(•.1)14.•").1.hiles. iti tile logic ni (his clrcrion, one were (13 CAll by thr nu/e lute

Dame cif lsrael all the places and all the liorples who. would be

ri•ady to recognize themselves in this ant...Lei nation and in INA ill-junotiun-and then this wuuld nu longer only be a vcrti .gri1.131.L1r

pruNeni ref 5•LilanLiCs or of i ILCLur•ie. Li kc ti Le C3L3c11i1.31L 13f 1110

prupper naille, the qucst ion of exeinplarity,v,iiitli I rut :Aside eArlicF,bc•re- sirrinte-s the place of all vide DCCS. BCCa1.35C if it i5 jluSt. to rcineir -1)rr t l l r futiirc: arid the Irilitn1CItiorli to remember. nantely the archon-I 'IC 111.111.1LCELOE1 tCF su;krii irr it13‹. ;:trchiv, ii is no k55 just tuIVITIEIrliii5cr I hi: citiii; and ihe ullcSclf,

rind orkirr pcople& onolki say the thing ill anr3iherway. Ancl rem' flutrt en' hurt dlifeLt Wt- ran Frrrirh:

every other every OrhN' CrEhf:r, ix Alingti her ralher.

F01111.:di7..illg IOC rlu kl r SA) 2S to gnin I 1.0. us. go ..511r;light to

the •uaStin fi.11 whir]) (Few CAL1 clunkh•oon(l•ci with cIrtacl beforetItc virtu:A injusticc (J ❑C risks Ci)711.111iE111114 in the' CIF i1.15,1

iLSC11. A't LIS follT51.11;LIEI 111.C• argiun.ent in a mode its

SCI1St' Cr.135.SC!.1. rI•C11.157.111;ll•SiS With cle.r:onstruKtion, a certain

p-sychoanatysis" and a certain. "deconstruLLiuri." Wh.en say that

err ruble, I mean. that aut.- treiribles, thc -one" or the "on' HI:11 -11es,whork.cr It Is Zfe.`1111b1C5:1X<P1LIC CileinjUSIkr of thrs jIL1SLICC C21.11 (tilt

4- r triltr" 1 I VIII1C11.CC vcry CE5115El1 or 1.1.1c One- ;l Hid 0x1 tliCUnigtor. Right i•l-iere it can affect everyone, everyone Andwhoever. En the centen.ces I just cited, the i.vorclq that nmke. (Indtremble are only those that say the One, the difference of the (?n r.lit the f)r111 of uniqueness ("dramatic difiereilec," "unitjur 9ihum,"

"(hilt' iE1 Esiael anti ii.u.wherc the') arid I hi: Om! ilkthe figure ["ire all critivi- preple"). Thr

gatllc r i11g ILSk1, itst:11or tlic 011ie is iliCver 111.14 i5 the

Uni k luc, th.r. 1;11 4; 4,f the IAN) i iC. !IV` LPN Of

{.-0 011 .figli rairial9 which orders tile OrChivC. COnsigilation is ncyrr with-out that exce5civc prcsstkre (inn pre.E.ton. repres5ion, sumrc-ssion)

fq.)ft.'55.14)n (rfrzir.i;ingrg.r.rg or Cruera rn:ingung) ;I31.(1

i:n t.r.1 girth kung) .1 re .11 1C'..I.S1 I ig 1.3

For it mai,. 17111 ni-Tcssary 10 7vr psycho:mak- lit- 11.:11311CS 1{3. 11115

VLLI.1{11•C. Ncither F cessary nor assiircd. NOT prinmrclinl. T4 el not

Ilo ILICC.IptiZV. ['IAN VIOience zit wink LJY %]]L jrC13031.1iCLI.3.11Sii-

1LIELCIE1 4.3f [I.IL ()TLC E31J UniCIUL f Ur FICLIti Co 11111_1 an automaticul SLEticlural jumiticaciull iur his "historical novel - Does tiW -51[}' r.lihis Lu4:110111 Vi4.31e:110c 11111 giVc 111c41L]i1Yg DIA 11i5 Alare.c,

1. 1111141<lli;11)1C 111111, 3 truth- if- tint 41 1. 111.1teri:11.

truth'? To iris to Jakob. hic father, in short to2...11 scs iivas also the Moses of Verushahni? To the son as

gralidlathcr (to whiontf...cr, to any "one," to sckinu.inc- who saysto nirselr, for t:.xiii)51,1c, Jakob or lioyf riLit i)Illy174 1.1111 4:41• I iayiL11, t 11, 1 ; 31.7% 1 I, aS if by C.1/4 1.11( 1,:, a W0114. 1 1411 11 1 CT 113 1 1101

MUNCS. 41.11131 Abrall AM)?

AS SS)1.1.11 as there i l Ise One, there is nturder.. wounding., trau-matism._ L km de d mare_ The One guards a.gainstilecps

uJELC Orr 11.12 ICI_ .1.1 LAC I_ LS rfiEqIlitiln. thciither, but, in Ile mu% cof his. violence, LI C1311.1 3SCS .1.11 1.1)LIS gi.1.3 I ding

11114.• scif iillicriies% CFr SC`liiliricrenre (die clikTerenc{. From mai hillon which rriak-cs it C)nc- The( )"...nc clefer ring rCan

. 1 -hc (..)ne as the ()ther. ,fit once...iit soent time.. bur in .1

SRDICkiJne C11FIL i5 out of Ir7int, the (_)(14.... •orgets 10 ren

itsel •., it 1.(c.LE:p....;1.1)4 1 cr.a sr.% 11)e. [km 113.3( Oil

1 his violi-ncc thill it floc's. Jr;fin rit vrole.rmr. 01)1:

violence. LE •vinlates ;ind dfxs 'F'14114'31CC 11 1 lint ii ;11.74 U. 1I1C::i

YiEFICE1E:C_ [1 1)CCE31]11IS (ILC y -....iolcnce • That i

ClOtS t4.3 liNCit. SCH .- deleinii ion as violcnre, ge2Fife

ireriper etua . se prre eloience (bec .argse it makes itself Violence. :mawgoi 10 Itinkc i(sCIE [IL r). iti cold arid I HS

ArdliVC4/ LII 5L1C1 .4113 L-001701111.ecill 11101 .1011_ 1S

L5. AL ih crild 4311 Chi% lectopu. rimy. [ mud)

41 ri.w1) as 3 Stonishanciii but. as al Yr'ay %kith ari ;ritr4ruilbte [at•, ( ;CidFrey

Ni Ay it is lhat this repcaL Ii IS NecemilwA 1,1 01'.1 f'. The ;1'4 "4"If . -F ,C1 1 CtILIOE1 7 CAE1 {3.E11 TCpCaE :M41 FCC;11.1 111 .15

instituting Tr cli, only ofrrri itst-IC and rngnge itself

this r.c petition_ ThiS. lS even whnt Tie.:S in rieplh the inilitriCrifan ofIIIME1r3.1 WEI) the anticipaiinin rFi rlle •utiire to conic_ The irijunc-.

uvrn 4idic:31 it 311.11u1notis trictnory Lhc safeguard 4.)1 CLIC Air-

ChiVC, LL3r113 il.PLUI3LCNLably 1.(10X;YE.LI ILLIC to 411q1.3C. h ordcrlEll- 011'36C, cort.lers repetition, and hi-54 4A • 4111

in yr% 11 if-petition k thus inscribed at the heartof the futurc to coine, one must also import the ibe Avne stroke,

the death the vil_lenCe of forge.lting,surerrepprs4ion

ikEld ple5Aii.)11.), ariorrhivc., irk sh•ori, possi h II): of pin-(ing TSa E[ELcith very thing, ‘,...hatcver its nainc, 1rV hiCh rric,i

'law in iU troorifioN: the a rckyrm of th-c arclliwt.',. the (nh-le, ichat corri425

the table and who Carries t.h.t: table, LEK subitctilc. ell Fol.n.Lrntc., andtE1C Subjc..c.t cYl th•r.!

is why tud might Kaye occupied in [kis furils Llic

41 I ter i Icl.wet.. o 1. lie 11.1 Elf I C 11]tl VMS!. Of ()cd.iipas. 7 heivit

" 11 oric - and - hrprelc.ssinc.cs,." . iti-kc- levy and rbc non -Jet, thr future

And 1- CpCtitiOrlr Orle!. -1.;11- happily, is the coricliticm of Elieocher. And the Other is the condition for the Ont. To be nblcsay that the decisiv and for the inonterit. undrcidable .c.[k.K.s.tiork

Bennington itinarktd tne that by underlining, and first by brin,tting into

Eplxy, 'LUC h. all LLriEr_ilLs1.11;kbility, I rnic.cd rr.Ex.11Llt Lilt 1.;;ClELLErt L s-ctincti pur

into question in t he hands orih.e. h yr.. mirneiy.. thic air 41i thr wric1111-

4.11' {If I FL-

4.1•R r I i Fr Ihcer.spi.11 gavr J 1.)r icily say tlirc.c ilinngs:

P 1 iw' lk ofc.1.15.11-44r or id a pc.iter

e`OtWr.t.ly sit n'25 a question of my saying in very tcw Frtn.cli 1'17 r •4EP',

JR eA.E. or.e ErrifIlL Cr Eua Latk by all EI4C3M br traiislact.1 Lil any langu4112,e, if .01715

1,14{' 1.1.1SliCr% LI} 4113 lige Elic pohlind SrirSC I FI Elm,. g5:7.11Llic.

2_ 1 h4lieve ;hat the afEirrnation cif a ccrtain idit3n -iaticity. or A C1.7Enirt

L.LiLiguclle&E 7 as Cl( CcIE3111 driiLtr.1.17,y, defr.IT,1. 13g, r6ar tzt say, impure. i

I r F r:I114'111[C ;LeL11 I,ri c 4531 Sr J I1CI [ W;1.35E£d 11 . 1. 113N E{] LEr rnorLstr.J.LL-. it

1011111r one dens nem. both with this a ftirrnzion, 23-Id with thil impurity.. i%

prr.r iscly whrre; 11171CS in..

3. Lx.i.1.I.5.5.1.y pit La5C that L w-1111r4.1 ILF rxCl'e.:Urr,. ill irYr., tii4Cr EM-1:1 i I L4 gyNILisc,

my 4113:11 rL Ftt 111 inialy to it ihkv. in en). give.

arY exAa)iF.)10.: caI 1.11i$ fatal nrcrS$Ity and cif its risks.

1M;

ii a! leas( it LS 3 n]attcr cif k is :Lt all kiln...v-.41r"), 9.'W4111.4.15 JC: And El ICA IL, ;11 El El 111.M I I LS

rrutains orn tn.wasfl the fuctire, one mum imesciir At leas' :1

preiirlcicrst:i rlalirig of whir 'to come" means. Now it is ill the srruc-

ED ' crf t] IC! ill EU 1-Q ttli C(.11154- OW it Can only posit itself Ec

ilLjj r.r.[KEiEIC111, 11 laid I I ES 1 IV': l'eS]rri:R for faithfulness to. othris

1ht- Onc, Thcanti to 1.)711c Se] I —;1.5. ti the 'bi iolca ir:115siArer IlLe { VMS! i{FE1 V.41 :i1 is tile futtiric4') sr iii (hill tta iprestimmyked by Yert.is.h;i1rii i5 iarror to the affirmation according

to whicIt the 1 utuut will. Nay Ilium try deliric. -scienx. e" and "'Jewish -

and " J C B11 SUCDCC: `

‘11V El l'C Sp1.C1 10 din pi CS Li ppc ,s CH I 11 in [] fel L151.1.01- Stil 114.1.i 11 .g ,

tin [1 Fol. I SC1 V CS IC I 'IC Fri IC' :In ;1. I 301 Ea_ I hayr ;Ettrtililt.r.4.1 to 5t 1..4 1.;141C

h [his !1st-A:here, arif I I 5.hnIl gay only a about it, from the

point or view or The 'archiver: 41.114 ow bAse one'5 thinking or the

011 All arc1.3iVCC1 —LCLI h ur withiRit substrate, mr.ith or

WiftwuE aUudlilly — for CL:LJIL (}11 d i 5l.'. Llii LI I ICI 10111)1i .1t1 C -

s i:LlLit CC1VC11;.1.1Lt ? Or CI.st , 0]1 II CL.Intrary, ran rill r:-.tpereenre, nn.

.1.VCI7el; 1E1 gc...iirral, 4 ALly ICIVC IVIR; ;in ( re,cord, 4)11.1y tirchi ..c 91,3Ch rincytili to 1II extent that the 5tracturc of this existcncc and 01: its

(C13 t1303 riiikr..) this a idliviLak.14_511 pos5.ibl.:'Sri otht_I- vr,ords,

docs {}J Lt= neci.1 a 1'1[51 ariiLlyc ordcr tc 1..:(3.110E.!INCra l orig,inary

4:Liva11ility? VLCC VC.1 . 5.3 ? TILiN is the "Al LO-1 Llf22111 ii 01. tll ieLwl-

licrrl 13C t'S-VCC'13 tlic c n I. CPI I I1C rcliginus ((..1.51.11.1V.IW.R

r-vrAabiiily {{)ffe.uharke.nr )., a r1c19sphIlitv of ircianircstokion,

prior thoughr of what (]erns rrpo...IrcI the. nrrivnl w toi.vard the

conling uf 4tii2h k it ri.pr rrt.JL (hat Ihr. logic (} ate alter -

thc-iaL[ (Nich.f.riigirchkEnri., 1 %1 L is D1 C pElly al 1 1 IC.7 ke.:3 E Dr- IAA-dill 5-

Linalysi5, I,ut. cvcri, Fulcf MC:MTN. 1 all "clefcrruir

). 1. 1 1 X:1.1i 4:114:C, LI,JFELS out tri Ch:SESITIFP, valaikgic forrvcr th.r

rens.surin.).41.11917[11.1.11.311 iWt 1ViCeEl I111.: !WU Et I tl t5 elf L Ill alitermitive..,

berweeri L[142 p351 at]{i lilt lull Luc, II1at is. to. say, howern tht thrct

actual. prEstats, which 9.h.ruuld be [lic Pas( [Jrcstiit

Lind t]YC fl...101.1 C ]).1 csrllti!

Ilk any 4.asc, Eiicrc lac rio fcItllrc without rciicti[lon.

S lim , Frt- 11ii rnight say (this W0 11 I El 114" hi F •ie5 is), rhrr(- Is El i) ft]

r7I r Without !hi,. :tree:re:1- of ale cis1 :31 viote.ne. ch ar .11gc.ribes

SA.L1Xf cp.r.ession liar) the arcitrimic instiluTion Elie archive, in 115t..

1.3o5ition., the 411.110-1rrAiribm r .r the Ole- One and ,pi'

lhe Unique, in clic. noinologicnI arikhe.. And the (1c.Arh Wil li-

ot1C this a il., which 'Ls :Aso cortAiv ( IL' CICS.iTe IL( I [he disorder

1.1 I 31 chive, [here wilii1.(1 be neiriit[ assignaLion nor co n signatio.n.

is 3 C4.).iiiSigilia( 1011. A E3 LI IV LICiS Lot/C says nr)inpological.

0E1C fiCITHIA, (1E1C N3 y3 tlic Law, 1.31.1[ 41.]St31/WS.ii Thc

of institution (igameif. Me.rni.1) is the Priefic. Arid

rhonis ;Ir ITIE'rlrne 5, TIM R:1y4, i IL wi[h thc. .originnry

phygi(, Mut one trinqlare.sc&nirnonly as 'inatur.c.."

It is [bus drat : wiat t13c thesis, the supplcmc DI Uldiescs [hat toL rc

thc Etrrgter, Prcitmbir, and if' wriivror its.r11

irchrily mud iy.r r. Ti i.. i3, r11_11 icl resist the desire !irk! 114Tht

script., ;I 1.3rosihesis on Freud's ilieses.' 6 Which is advanced fix the

0101hef gli.EySES.

1(j. 41..es ri Irt i E.4Re 11'• SIVA. of a jrr..1944eqi.r rr.p.reisicin. ( ..crrkin

L'uichilwaint and $1..31.1scilnicivc LeChnill‹..gics " pfoYe lhar "clic fullillaricnE of . re-

jthcssiui L iJ I LU. ickL131.11 101'111 1.1.1.111n. 11111 41,1pi 1154 Qui iiii% %LE L

raill.31.1" aI. I 11r1 ikreer rk,Q.4i ern the prim-thesis,. chc -end-

and tlit "teclictique- uf. rrprtsston. AU of tlik concerns 1lit rwcni rIst

There is tio.thing tliat onccliric 'inn! hosr% se'rti rti 'I hi. ringe%e hchr.rensav Arm y IIr 111.11k ing .1 131.)1. IIa4i hay

even (hough ic has happened. [t is. thus to -trcat Cvtnl..AS 'OriE

]iAlipcnell — (in. Prrn.cli LEL LELc arriv&-) lice? 0:771.

1.

ri paw •va rpEls!) 1 1.1. 3sual MN, 117 In' `WTI AN LA Ir p u1111 I 1 1. 1 1LLI

lIE 4 1431F 74:11.11 AriEurmS 0'3)0 uopergtirn siip ilorkb \

. 111-1 1 :6 (4o-94361 v414P 0-4.9., b?•rii..51 4ee '1)Ti.D3.4 •S1

4ZZ 1 I 11. 1113p DIA5 I I I S }WI I 31!1.1.-d • Nu! LPLF X51 11 Ji_p

.1)11131 SHIA_ •(u_Isi s)jtr!tii agi 1:14-poxprt1 pug' _.3.1111,,) :3114)101

JJ,. Jo stiAt .Ug 21)011J g ,1JC5111r:Liri I!) IS .. 1 emzpiv JIU lirpEgij c,k,u-Liji E....." l c jj

41 d 0 7 .1 0 SUIC1011-)1 -11111 13111.D1.21 1,13[4.1% 131 1.)11..1 N' ucJia 3pEl1.)Lei l 5 .511_10.+6

3SP11 .1_ ' it 1 f r.u.r./.77 dP.refetinjil 1:06.131 Bar pila,N1 1)) lei.3!1 : [ 1111.11111...y4 xp.))),11

20aRt7 01 poi amo.o.§" Ytta)

$rinv piPro, ;Ty. 10 1rlifi t !P. PH

argil auluir,up p,2 )-r.7)-41 ,i4.1 11,-p,a sr. 7.1 „Ty jrno rcfr7 1 .19j Sttcrjr

64144114: Of pry rniai J r1 4 n aziAcig v.1 nnfinintury Jo term?{

- nri'd !Jr p.r.rde kJ. rp trP.11 ',110.1.10,721y.7.itt

41 - u43.1s.

Johli

HP ne).4

sMes.r,7-1.a

• (1r JrJrJ, 'voydrtpjj.

F -um" imathit us dti „win hi . 4pLe IrJfirAY Jo ffrir)qurti

ospqr.rf tro sp,DIViery

rea rs j •Ale,' J17,1/110971i.e.dr..pia JLiperrp.remrporio .j.tcp.roj. 211 ;Ail If • j " .1

161 1).117.7 4.11.4741 yip?! trfnur ?CM p..).2.1.0p.r emu rIJf • - •

96R .11.717 )..y f 9 'nr.w.a!,. 1

IN prg-tel)4.1 volicne yee . c.oprmihriart ScrLIIS 1E3.3-

possiklr, %dim ni lhiiig nny finger rtilLi(C 101Clir lighl iii Clu:su

14) [kw ri) rhr ri.) the (kr [Ili• archive. [•i- ustI1119 WC: idiomatic formulas which we claimed coi1lx1 onlyprin.! 1. ht!l]ISr.1.5't 44.5 c ..orin3iiicall.) . ui Ow language. '1'1sey

1.3t•s.s AELl1114•2 1_1j.r.r _IL' garde de l '2.2t2.11 .•e, wc A[id

fie a c. 1_"Lin se' garde tle r.111.1• vivieNce. (the ODE

krrps (Irani) tile othcribr making •iokni(4:); toolkus

itsel f violencr gic ro rnakc itscd.fvinlence,

;inoilli•r Ling,iingc cilt.r4.7,etIner, is this not what Freud irk . ouldperlinias rv.)i, Ski bStaiKe.. }ti-hat Freud's s ct.er

ri)r which no onc.. ,..vants tn plc sittbstitnic'd wouli_l perhaps

Li) '',..'crim15.alygli? SO Ell(' 171111CI or psycho:km.1,1)6x and of

rain -did nor taki. imro co3isiiicr7tion the qwstion A- c .i.gicerning

k4Il;LS E 11 giaughtcr iii 4:114,...•t %VI-0(C, in his ili:11T1(` or in her narnr. (the

c{3.1oLeglt oi ale rcSix.)ills-t lo stir 1 Y cititsLioEL was. airr.ac.ly ;31- ClikM4.1, ;3k

k.LIISE in 1[13C le[[[ EIRE I-Cr) 4[0.1SdIL, as. curly as 1192(a)_ But hc did

ircspond Ill Llic tU 1.13c 4.4 tics-

ii+ IIi I ir iiiC.`figrrgrr illkiNiSH3, ](l SUET]. 'FEL(' (11.3CSLECH1 OF the filiurc.

Ih• .]u- cicr or 1] .•• To:1cl - (Pr Ihc. of I hr ritrrir•.

Who wanrs r.r) ILl srii Lire hrrsell 1c r FEeilirs phantom?

Fienop. c.ark ofic~. not 1.....3nt t ch, a' WIR:11? 3(10r1k4:rkt lkikS 15E71 . 1;3[1-CE.Inlie

11.1- ri.sk, In a rum/ on !lie. s.i.ihic.ct c5i Freuirs th<scs.

The titc2iis ?midi] fn sr s_iy the 1:remli..111 art..

corn r.adictory. :1E rc- the Ix-ginning ti.ich that

the ar t-Ili...T. ri`hu.5. it is For every cr).necpt; always (lislocating itcclf

is OVIt: with it al. k h th 51A1114_' with L11E1 tht:Sh

Su Ikl i i pkwts arranges 4.-oi5oepts. tht.. hig.ciry c5f concepts,tlien lormatiun much :I% their

Why stress ..c[wcriatity 114•rt...? ] .veatis.c. 0.1

84 ficcaucc- hr. had thc auclacit.L. to .1 ,1 hint tint

a con.firknrio.1 rcspoilw wimse archive he would 11 .C"I:C1 unl•eili.= Un-

{I{FLJkliC(1.1y, 111.3E In ti1C. firm pl;irc..: struciL3K tk. arc hivc.

es Apee.E•al. II Ls

;II cr pr•r.err! eftiiILC7 IkeCSI•LI HUI ;.L15.W.311 " ilk

ViSIETIC nar invisihlo, a I racc always rilicrring Iti ..Ln-

hpr wl5ow ctics can nyver [1]C1, no (134)1• [11:111 0111:1113lek's

i1;1111'1". [II;1311(S i0 [10SCil]iliky Of ViS01". AIS;(1, Ill(• SFR:CO- al IlliCkri •

s L disseminagicig iission from which the arcliontic prin-

,[31(1 [1.1C CUI1CC1.3E rif 111c LLrchi•r 7 dud the cuiicciit in gcncral

sidfc•r, rrinn I ht.- prin•iplc 4 311.

r is kni3vorpIllair did OrC‘FyilLilig cKsiblc 1SF !Ha

experience or haunting, spectrahry, ply.granms• ghosts, 1 is cried co

accuunt for Lbc.in, Couragouusiy % in as scientific, critkal, and c1-

I

-

iwc ill 6511100 1.10 114..1.5:Sa51.e. Bul by doilig [1131, ht..:11SC5 rIle(1110C7(irkiLlft:

11)ein, Like Marx. I Lis im.mi[ivisrn was pill N) 1111C7. kki

Ilk Ic.cloir4.-cl hatLacctIlics-5 ;Ind of his linavgvivcd frar, I,el 11C Clk

only Ctric i n I shal] Churkse it IT(Frri ClCrul VI 0 rchiv•from .1.[p close to an Unix's...Mlle ..ircho.eology ot . this nostalgia., 4-.1

4111S Fil1i •1.11. desire for aI icLuin lo the AuLlitntic 5inyttl.aroriginh

.111.(1. return concCEilcd go at cowill For the ticsme (LI 1:4:11.1.1ifn: 14.3r

tut- back closc to Naples and to. Vontw-ii,

in tilc. iiindForapc .- iii craiiiva, where I Avrotc thr.cc. pngrs s.orne teng.1y5 ago.

IIL 11.1S rtachiig 4)1 Ile....1)scri.% Graditchr.. Freud ay.i.)ws. Iming

El:du11k:1 1 lc dC[]1.es JL w c.kinyins hC tiC L 11 i El )SC111

IS ill al (iClCad ing [MUNCIE I IS` kild$ 11 it LI 5C11, i Lill %V MI ;it Elk(

[1]01nCTIE 3Vaint5 rn 3C(0 11.[I7I [or the ia•st 1-Linu1c•.k. in-

[V(7.15?p 1, the INLI,]ntcci insanity of so Ille011.2 the-alid

One rd.:kt :3S :111 character in Fiction. The latter 1llillks that he ,I l;$

riff ;I •holc. hour with C: radiva, with. Li LI-Lhly gJoust" (21.1g/tags-

grrp-..arl),. glhoug,h Ihc has liceli

w

bLielcd siELCC L[]c cat.astropitt, of . 7:9.

analogriec crith 01051. For an [HMI( 113{'11 tilt! 1.311[1

rgairr. her SII Ititilti, and I LiikeP143. iIi.r Archnno14)gist, rrniains

But Inc alf.n remains duped by

What tiff ill Freu.g1 do? Hc hin.([ firm df..arly 1 rme..41 ti]t! ciAsslrai

prubicili Uf 11FL phaiLtuin. r ilc3 of t he phmitgini, in li[onalLire_ - [ - h<

.11:1 11 , 1.1 . 4 11( 1. 1•." is IRA Eh( Unly G.k(142 [0 be ill L CUM' or la hurrre rrollaLI(Spgoru.r:mg). Fzi•c..(1 with tilt '' .11)1}arition

ask Lilt first [11;1C•, VC{' I Fir I•.111(1 - 9, WA.12 rr r.c, For we hA}•t-

firSt SeC11 'In the furnii 1)1- 3 5.193[C: and then ora fanta5.ticallinage (l'haniusrebild). • 1 1.CM thnl. 11. 1.11. 4)5.1.-.il.latc simply bc-

uwc‹.iii (Vic phanburci and rca.11(y., clico.iwe reality (Epgritiiti.id., rowing

it [IL 4.]1.101.A[L011 [11;lek)., !'felt{] slae.Yks 451..L - real " Ohl isi (in

(7e.pop.a): "Is. sht- hAllit•iliaticm of mil- Ficro i lc(' astray by

his delusions!' Is she a 'real' ghosi? or a living pc.r5orli

PrrfoittP I ' (171. To ask oneself - these queslionn, Frn.Ed notcs,

85

- hclicyc in 04-3sts.' The mid the "icnEiLin-

ungtnicicr ,. tiro 4)nly inorc ivireit.i.ibic in that Jensen, the author ofwhat Ile himself caRs a ".1...,..rn,a.stit: Jiction"{.1 .".ia.r.24.riicsigick), has. nor

tu aI vvl§ctlICS 1.1L 1,41 :111)1.4.-4t 11..) .1) S prosaicHi• if hr. vi.•.1ritc4.1 LAS IL1r;msport las into 3111.11114.- r

veil I" 6111)i C h spit ;1 Cid ghosts [6.z" CI 10 .1' rind t fpionCte•) scro

reality I Eilirkficilivitr 117. try y ornipbasicl. We as prepared to 1:n1-the author or fictim a.s iaL " t15r examples of Flamini' and

.5.4Jcbcf.1.1."[xi Eh 11.1: 11:Cr ILIrga iE: JL 131iCklay, :11 dIr " 1110E3F glv vas." 1(;crf

slit appears fir 1.15 iIi all

CNICricricc . y.e.odrirw, for thc iii the ni5ve1, in anexperience the Itrniguage. or which, index(' the tnulciplicity CPI 1211-

gl.LI.g5, Cannot lx alYSLJ'aCLI:d away to Isaac inkr:Ej inirc perc.,:ptionVerl ."145.1" I rely pereeptivc I 33___.1111 L IELLELL01.3. 11:1L11.1.1 .01150 i4clijirc:$m:kn

ItitJyl r ( -4:11.1i 1..:L ill Greck spectrol existenec -

It/fel Or) 11-1 1v1Aint-d1 thu ionw•r to spcnic (Spar.r . iivertni.jscoo). 9N

resprattsr. hi~ Then Ac14Iress•s her in T.atm, Shc 5-nlidcs and asks hillytro speak ill his 111131.3CT German: "l you want co. speak10 El/.L, y4)1E11E105111{1- Ll 311 C.k-'11111r.111, 1 A phantom. can thus buto. 14.1i4)/11_ tn this Our,. allergic [4.3 111411( Uln C , its ILICS [34.)E

Idresl it ill .jusl Ling13;11.g.e. IF 1:1W 43eC4E1114)1Lly, oricc again,

n Lox Of thr. (11.krkr, F rhr• trancriction ;mei 711.,.{1. el.t

suirm (14Krwsliicity: haunting iniplics places, a habitation,and a E3H111EICC1

r FELJ5 LS 14.,11.ge 54E3;tracii frmn.q4112stiOlti. of a `r` ilctri r

Lbu5 L13 L1. 4.1.C.14:111015S: is .3 1)11.11110111 - EA,';.1.1 - 1341t

al S4) "lrutii." What ibout the truth fol . Frclull, hcc.-1.1

1,Vhat, in his eves. is the share, Ole allowance, the part ut .

truth,' Ilecause he believes in somerhing par( oi thel IC LJS !liar Und•r anialysm, pl.ychuandlytic .examinatiun,tEli 43 4:1 1. L.1.1.), E LI.Lk EJ• VCI 3:i I 1 1.111i I. (die th.r1L.V.15 die.4ef

ir .1 reci) scums tlis.sipat• . . 224 Me'Pgr.'heil), :11

4c - '11114.• gre:illeT part [Zilln31;11 1;.1.0%Cren [Mir

SEII114114- iy a kick c1I verisimilitude which scenls V dissipate withuxplicsi '1(111. at lecist Jpz large iyart!‘\ r hat is this. part.' What is it dueLu, LiLlS pliCLC WI1LLL1 resists \r[1:1: 111i5 (n t[1.0

thc. par picce? And vokii this

iition have. to do with the truth'Wc know Fhr Freudian exi.lon;:iticin. AntirvilorNi l'V this strange.

iirotrxoll. it mobilizes Nicriogic.a.1 inachlinery

Elice.11.311.1:111LN E1:13.1•4:5:61)31._

111.Jr SE1OL311.i JRIE fOrgCr r[1.31 if Elle F3SyCI - 14].1.n.4134: cx[FIAILation of

delusion, 45f hannrciiness, of hallociti3tion, if the psychoanalytic

theory of siccter , . in Rim.. leaccs a port, . 513...trcof nonveri5imili-kodc ilutxplatot(1 or rzithcr uerisimileor, c.ari ying truth, thiicaus42, and }'(cud Ei2Cogni•c5 it hEIL3SCH a bit furdici

BUM eilditi:ci.r.r, :L Er Lail ski 3E1S.:LIILIElf 4.P3' E3ilmunti:c.iricss. A.1101 oguEls

lo that truth- which Freud clisiingluishrs, notably in Aft.,

ge.0 From th.r ILinateriat truth," 1111. 2; trLIIh is rrpres:(1 car supplyssca.Hut it rc.sists and renews,. as such, as the slx.ctral truth of delusion.or of hakinici.ineSS. IL reftex7J1. it belongs, it comes down to spectralgr L1L[1. 1)4:111SEUL3 .1Mal31.1.y, 1LaL3E3L4:4.111C5 EN. Hut oiLl'• i1.111.1.11Lcd. by Lhi.or Iliad ghost, Gravida for cx...iinplc, [rut by 11I4: ]p.C4A.CF 1).1111.4: truth.

which hns 1111.3S ri'13141SNCEL 7154! truth is siructnil, ;Ruck L[1 -15 is

part of truth which is in-cducible by explanation.

A biL fair thy. on, .FriitEd Dticropt$ again to alltaw Jr,u toaccount

for this part in 16 hallucinatory 111:4.4.1131111g 011 - thZ Uli.:111:11=11.)gia:

If a 1)011N:it t15 his fie/41:51.0.E3 SO. iircnLy, rE1is ES nig 1.X'CCLL35C

[.CO RC5dilrhi J^rcANC/i.11 Ibis f.lcL]Ity OfiL3Clgeffirrilr LINS i1C4'11 0 114-T-

turned niid does not :3CEQ:'. fri)Erl '111041:1T is false lima isrl i1 th(.3.11 I he 4.".03LINify, is ;I gram of Truth concealed irs

cycry ciELLISIC5IL ISM/de-TF.1 r.r.i jecieln SIC•okr• Ci.r1 Kdr.r.16ACTI

Wc2.1:11, 11Cgi I, 1E1•EC is _Nonici king 1 ❑ El 1E1:11 1Cally .13CNCI'VC.1 4)C[3.Cf[cf

ill riwas rrrr Tama, ferti re...if-IA• dcrr GidiurbE•n crn.ficrg I , :111ki 1E11:4

11E4.' si 3111-Cr I fir Qii.elle I (.3f . pnlicrit's conviction, is there-

161't Lta t Erri X Et 31. LIN Li II ied LejeF 41141%1 SU ber•e -

gzeng eke} s ErLIC EC ❑ 312.111. !dint; Vitro rofe, this Lruth,

EiLC Er1.11.13 .1NCCii Crf 1.r1.31[1 .1,1LOINCVCr, his king bcco. rcp3c5scti I ran

Loge Zell f'erciriingsl. 1i- eventually it ES :1[31t: tca ]acncume into curl -

rhis zirrie in a dist.orted forni lrtJ entstelifre• Farm], the

5crist• Cori >r ii i c h i rte to it i ovce-inte.nsilied 111i)ogli

by SAW: COE15[10,2JI5:ainn nrid is now 0.t.tr.lChed 14) die: (liS14.)310EI

not nccd

NUbSlitnte of 113c repressed truth lam .1::nt.fteliungserwtz dei tyr.do -iingto, J. 180]

detilthCr the ardliVr . If IhiS III read its triad h onthe monument or this portion, one mils' take inc account a plys-theik. this "diStOrted 5113:56RM:1' But a part of tiiith remains, aFm.-4,:c: or a loam of truth b-reathes at the hearr of the delusion, ofI be illusion lie Cif 01C hat.11111.01..111C$5, ThIS is a fig-tuc we find ;4y,ain literally in •foirs, precisely when I:1 cud di.st in •

gin5hes "historical" truth rronn "material - truth. Fur CX-1111.1)147:MOWS W;15 the first all, and ('Iris[ was his/n .0.4,-1.4- fivbsrittere(Ersatzmann),. his representatrve and his successor, in this case,Saint Paul was in ;I cct Scnst itistillcd to address the nations asIn' did Ronnir azido Palates trot einer gt-wiiren hi_$foriftlien ge? cchti -Rung den •el•er - tP ver-r-gfr -fr) to tell them that thr Messiah had in el-Ica come. 4644h:A gekomnien) OM That he lvas p u t to ..hd-oreyour ey12s" (vv, Atege-0. "Then, too," Freud says, -there isul elcalelit or historical truth in Christ's resurrection i .hterallv, apiccc of . hi cior eu Sthat hiilwgfauT Ji .ahriuffit, for he wa sthe resurrected .11.,105.es and behind lom thc returned prinial latlwr[Unwed of thr.• primitive horde, transfigured and, as the son, putin the place of the lkher" [901.

!laving thus accounted I-or the parr of truth, taken care to [Sanerl,c saved of truth in the htilluelnation of the archaeologist who isprey 141 the day ghost," Freud tliCarLS (4)ilhinl this truth ofrevisitalion. ire to demonstrate ...chile illustiating. With theart of manipulating its suspeni.e,, like a narrator or like theQi 2 fit13011, hr. tClIS air, ail turn, a st{ ry. But as if it were the histm.).•

dr. a Caw. Not the C3se, Ofa patient, but the case of adoctor. "I know of . a Kloctoi," Etc s.;irc ISE 9; 71]. The doit:tor kidern gliact. i lr had sviEncss.cd tlic sprk - ita.1 ettii n (Oa dead pci son;lnrl he UMW, in 51.)ni, hear witne5•1 to it. Freud had just noted thatthe belief in spirits, in specters, and in returning souk Orr Glauhefin Gthiter .r4nd (;cspen..4‹..r und u_liederfekeendr Seelca)slicni id not beLaken as a simple residue of religion and of chilt=11101x1,'he exiwricriee in N•lik-11i we meet pectcrs or let them conic visitus remains indestructible and ilticicitialllc . The MUM CtihiVatc4_1 7

most reasonable. the most nonklieving pcolik ensily reconcile r.

Certain cilifitUaliSITL Nvith re-3soil. \V(' know about the FreudI.IFI in-

trigue on the sub1ect of telepathy. I tried to discuss this elsewhere,

in a more or less- fictional fashion, and I will not go back into it.

What is aR he-re LS an analogous problematic. I :rtmci wants 10

teach with the aid. of an example: "Ith weirs run einem Amt," "1

know a (11x-tor ..." Arid he tells us., is if it had to do with someone

else, the misadventure of all colleague. The latter repi (niched ltiln-

SC:4 fur a professional improdtricc; it may have led to the death oi

one of his patients. Many y4...33. S latc.lr, he sees kl young girl enter his

office. I le recognizes tilt.. dead person. I Ie. tells himself . then that it

is "true laws-kr] that the dead can [allele back 14.0.0 fie Toren w ieder

kW Urn EA if:irg.r?C71 17111. His hallucination had ken favnreci, it was

lucky, if you will: the sp. --ter prescnted itself as the sister of the

decca.scd WOInell and also suffered 1 .11)111 (jravcs ' disease.

leer is clic amp- dr rileccir)e, the di aniatic twist_ Frctid prctelickd

to speak of si uncomic- else, of ;E colleague. (If I were IL} be ii1111104.101

(0 Sliell p)int, doubly inkruodcrst, l would say that he did whir

am doing in speaking cif a colleague, Yerushalrni. while I am speak-

ing of myself.) 1-7rcud presents himself, he says, in sum "here I am":

"Der Ara abet, don rich this ereigner, rt r id! felin „ . ," "The doctor

ElIWIL01111 11k1S CH:X11MM was, 110'bveliCr, none 4.411c1 than .1 L'iSC if .

[72]. And. he does not fail icy cli;i1tr 3 ConelUSion: he is in a 1401.

E14.)Sit inn nut to refuse H:1 boldthe arehneologist the clinical postikil

ity of a brief delusion, but also the right to a riarriYe. hallucination.

As 50011 as a semi-specter appears, it is also the right of manifest

ti0E1 Of a i,:c (Vb•hiCil is a bit spectral, 1.1.1 pars spectral) in

ilic 13C r in c if a Si )1 11 of .51 de of "real phantom.- The Jpreirs, die

aspi-4.1, the spri-te•. this is what remains to be seen with the truth,

what is needed to spec-111;1U^ with the true of that truth.

In the end, Ye.rushaltin is right. He h:is rnanagCd to allow for

truth's part. FrCiki had his gliost_s., he con Lt r,rl occasion. 11c I 89

palEakc in his truth. l it livid his, and he ollx:yed thoii kob

t'vloses, ;HO a few cithers), as dines Verushaltrii

Stielorimh, Sigmund Slichnnoli, his Moses, mid :I few others), arid

I myself (Jakob, Hayiiii, niy grandfathers. Mows and Abraham,

and a kw others).

Freud's discouisc oil the archive, and hcrc is the tilleS15 421 1 t he

t WS, ros ix- AS does his 4:4 MCC pi Or t tic archive.

It takct, Ltiw tJ Lontradictory forms. That is v.•15): we say. and th istats always. iranslaae all AVoWal,. art Ithr Jr" ver. Onr. shutild

he Able t'' find traces of this contradiction in all Freud's rrrark s. Tloi,

contradiction is nor negative, it nriodulatcs and condirirms thc very

Formation of the cuncept of the ;Luc hive and of the curkepi in gen -

ci al—right where they bt-a, the cutituttliction.

If Prend suffered froni ma/ if igra hive, iI his case stuns from

trrairbire (It t rau .hive, he is lint withinit his place, sirlullitaile(Msly, in

the archive fever or disorder we are experiencing today, concerning

its lightest symptoms or tiv great holocaustic traguilitsolour mod-

ern history and historiogr2phy: Concerning all tilt dttegkle revi-

Nil:J[1164ms, as well as the mos./ legitimate, necessary, and eknirageous

rewrii jugs 01 histot !J. 15c:fine gathering and fintitalizatig the double

Freudian postulai1.011 ;1b011.1 ihr archive, I would. like 10 illSCIFS: 11)e

French expressions just used: ihe treed-121c de Parc/rive and the maidare•,we.

Nuthing is less reliable, mthing is lcsa. clear todkry than the word3 • And no only becaus.c of the two in delis of the a•khi- we

thstinguislied at the h.cgiricung. Nothing is more t roulplucl ariii mom

troubling. The trouble with what. I4 troubling here is undoubtedly

what troubles and muddles Our 'riciion (as they say in French), what

inhibits sight and knowledge, but .itlso the trouble of troublec.1 arid

troubling affairs (as 1.[Icy also say in French), the trouble of set; rots,

of pli.pt.f., of i_landcsiinciiess., (i• 11.111-privme, h;.11.E . toriji.1 I:1-

ithiS, 411Willyh. it 1 I IC 1111.51:Lbtvkilnir ilKstIVCCII public: and private, be-

tween the family, thu society. the Stare, berwcen the family and

:tit intimacy even. more private than the family, beiween oneself

and oneself. I thus nanic the 1,remble, or what is called. in English

1 Ile -trouble,'" of thesr visions anti of thcs.c alLiis in a Fluid' idionli

that is Again untranslatable, to rrcall IcaNit that tin: arelliVe ;11WaVS

1101115 o problem for trandation, With tlie irrcplaceabie singularity

of a docuryic...in lo ink-Trim to repeat,. to i .uprodUCe, cash rime

in its original uniqueness, on archive ought to lac idiomatic. and

thus at once offered and unavailable for trauslatiwi, open to and

shielded I rr_pui teulMical itcrallOn reprodkiction.

Nothing is 11.1 ILO more tronbIrd and more troubling; today than

the concept archived in this word "archive." 'What is wire prob-

able, on the other hand !. and 111(.1-re clear, is that psychoanalysis is

not without rcsponsibility in this trouble. It wants to analyze. it, but

it alsu heightens iI. In naming psychoanalysis here, um I cfcrs al-

11C,Idy.. III ;Ally e.isc to the archive which is chisqificd, at 111'01;

sionohy, under the riaine taf u pSyC1110.:Inalycis, " ni'Frciid,- and 0.f a

few others. In °Wei words, if we no longer know very well what

we are saying when we sat.. "arcliivc," - Freud" is undoubtedly nor

withuut respunsibility. But the 'mint of Freud, the name of the

Treads, have seen, itself thus problematic.

The tr 0111frie farrhIvr SEM] IC from a ma/ d'architl.. Vi.re are nit

mai ercirt•hire: in [wed i)f archives. Listening to the French

and in it the attribute (72 and dr, to be co meter darckive can mean

something else than to miffer From a sickness, from a (rouble ur

Irvin what the noun mai might IIaIIIe. 11 15. ti.) burn with A passion.

lt is n.ever to J cst r from scm-ilking for the i1r4:11ive

right where it slips away. It is to rim after Olean -hive, even iFthere's

too much of it, right where something in it atuirc.hives itself_ it is

to have. a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the ar-

chive. an i i FE: reSS11111('. 4.114,1311rC to return to the urigin, a homesick-

ness, a 110S1:11g1:1 for the rt.turn to the 1114,5I archaic place of akmulute

commit-met-mew. No PS re- n41,A. , llo drive, 00 C00111.3151011,

1114 14..TC[ no repetition compulsion, no urtrai-dc." ran arise for a per gon

who is not already., in one W2V or another, en ma darchwe, Now

the principle of We internalir.rv.sion of the Freudian gesture, and

thus VII the Fr CI 1,1d1i111 CulkOuplt o Eke archive, IS that at tilr I111.01TIVIt

W11 4:11 11 $y 1...61.3 ;mtiLitysi5 1uritrali2.4.75 the cunditions of archive f.c.ger and

of the ardtive itself, it rcpcals the very thing it rcsists or which it

makes its object. raises the makes. Such is the case with the threeplur ow thews (or prostheses). Three of 1hein Itavt to do with the

concept of the archive, one other with the conixpt of concept_

Jr. Pirit thesis- antifirsi surench 'ere f1Ja 2 a Ind) I 91

On the one hand, in effect, with I lir single bur decisive conception

of a topic of the psychic apparai us (and dim of repression or of

accii_Priling to the places of iitscripni)n, 114 11111. 1.111.S14 and

Freild 1_01.M511.dC Illf LiEL archive [1113 .1y:11y

speaking, of a hypc.)rnricsie tar technical artlii,e, of Lhc substrate or

thi.-! (material or virtuol) which, in what is already a psy-

•_

9z

chic spacing.. ...annul be rt laced to memory: neither to memory asconscious reset ve, nor to Inez notv aS I ernern oratiori, as act

Till.• MA U' ;11'4.1 i.:011)C UllICIrf .171.ritzwle 1101' wider

lily 0.1 1 Me otter hi -ma. as I tried to show in "Freud and the Sceneoj Wrtting," this does 110E stop Freud. as classical metaphysician,from holdurg the technical prostliests to he a s•cconda.r• and

exter rot iv_ in Tat' or ICSO1 tint!, to What he hOlilS to Lca 111 1XICI

of auxiliary representroiLm, he invariably maintains a. prinka•y oflive memory arid of a narkincsis irk thvir;0T.g.11ary temporalization.From whtch ..•Ve 13:WC the arChaerilOgiCat outbidiling by whieli psy •choanalysts„ in its archive fryer, always atttr13iltS 10 return 10 tiTC

4 3 1 ig in of that which the r,trchive lusts whale keeping it in aFr ! idriplieity or places- As we have 11014'd all along, there is an inces-sant tension here between the archive and atelkaell14.40._ Theyalways be close the 0110 to the other, resembling, each other, hardlydiscernible in their co-implication, and yet. incompatible,hefewerrieeths, dim is lo say• thtk rent with regard to the *rokiir, in diton-e irga•i ru the ark/hf, Now Freud was incessantly temptedTo redirect The originiki interest hc had for the psychic artiiiir's: to--wand arcl-kaerrIngy (the word "ari)air." b the ‘v.iy, am wars Arcadyin the ,Suidres on thille7/.42 ( 1895}1-5h: The sctlie Ckfc Xfavali011,

th.„ theater of az chaeological digs are the preferred places of thisbrother to I lama F..cli time he wants to tract] the t ,c3pology of

a rciiives., [liar is to hay, of s•vhat ought tucx.ciuulc or forbid the ret urnto [lir Mr lovur 111 N14)4tr: figikr proionscs arelia•ologwalparables. The mr3St rd111:11'kable and the miEst prc-cociotrs or rikcin

known„ in the sl tidy of hysteria of 1896. We must once again

underline a kw words in this work to mark what is to lily (- yes the.:likoht nickincnt. A rounin.....nt and Mil process,. this in.Stallt{11.1C5

111.it ttk 1.thori►us tirciphcrinF. 111 It is thenearly ecstatic instanr Freud 41nrarlis cat , whcit the very it..ICt••3 Ol

die dig must sign the efricernent of the archivist: Mr origin Mcii5peaks Tht appears in the nude, without archive. Ii

N. As 1 was rreikintled alter thrt teclure b) Dasiv Nobils, Whom I flkailk,lhr cairn- ikcgc1 Appeats .195)V him f 'Lim mites def reTyrifeicir.

41M.i.

Inesents itself . and confluents On itself 1.3v nscli. "Stones talk!" Indie preterit. ...11e.r.prowerif With4)1.1a hypnarr.cesid chilea .rgiSL lkaS

SUILICCeded irk making the archive no wrvc any fun, I kin.. 11COMES tO effeter oself, It heernneS tran1SNI rent or LineSiernial 54; lo

ICE Ille Entscut ASCU in person. I without MCdi•itiCrn andwithout delay. Virr illtOtit even the memory 4.)la tiarislation„ once theintense work .I) lralksiation Arid IJLLs Would Lac tht!%dya -WE" of an "arminitcsis:" The link! Vrriod consecrates to thislong voyage. in a field of excavations Also says skunctiring fir jouiccatle-e. I le ...you'd like it (0 tke incertntnable, he prolongs ir Iknrifir rh•pretext of pedagogy or filet:uric;

Nit trd.cr 1 t: Xpl :kirk the ti )11. S 11 p. 1he Inediudwilidk we have Ito citiploy for this purpoi.c. - and die older inciliod)f- Fine.ininrstic enquiry, I should like to bring before you an anal

"P . taken from ;.in V;.11ICC that has in fact htwri made in another

rick' of work,Imagine that An cnkpluytr arrives in a little-known icgion

where his nitcerst is arotiscci an eqtariSe Of fl1111S, With re

mains of walls, fragments of colimirt..., and tablets with half-effaced and unreadable inscriptions, He may content himselfwith inspeaing what lies exposed to view, with questioning theinliallitacits—p„.1 Imps. semi-barbaric people- •wfio live in the .10 i-

about whal tradition tells them of dic history and mean-ing of these archaeological l'efflairkS, alld with noting down whatthey tell him- and he may then proceed on his inurn•y. llut hemay !Act differently. 1 ie rnay have brought picks, shovels andspades with him, and he Hwy SEA the inhabitants to work withthese implerneikt_ - Irogether with 111C1n he may start upon theruins, clear away the rubbish, anti, bc.Tiiiiiing frOnk 11.1C visiblerernaros. utreckver what is buried. If fris wurk 1;,f oThwiled with me -

cmc, the disc-um-ries are feffexpiaiiiireny: the Mined walls arc partof the t nk par is of a palace or a treasure-house; the fragments ofLohlikuis can be tilkd slut intil it IC tnplct; the 131,1rnerous inserip -I ions, which,. J... good I tick, May ire laitii1 L1at, rcveat an alphabet

arcs a lariguag•, anti, When they have lmcn deciphered and 1 talks-

latex], yield kiricircarticti-of information about the events of theretnott.L. past, to cornmenkorate which the morkuments were built_

axe.' loquunard rile Aetiology earl lysteridn (I 696). SE 3 192,my etriph...isi.sr"

2, SCO.Mal_+etund sure' ch re (fir Khey bid)

On the one hand, the arelti•e is made possible by the dO

death, aggres-SiiL, kind (km ruction drivc, iliac is to 5ay also. by 03 iginary finitudeand bevothl ILIEILIEL1414.7 ;VS litnIL, [ILIAC IS, alb WC Said

;i1;14)%1:, t]iis properIi - rr1 finiie 1]I 4JVCIEL•Ilt I filsli4:- ;i1 des-UM-hullWhich no ardlive desire or fever would kipper). All tits i•xis

ill the Jaunty and rd the period ur Bcyond the Pleuffi•e Prinuldr

explain in die end why 'here is archivization and why anarchivingLICSIFLICILEJL3 Lt) die process of archivization loci prudULtsthe very thing it rudiaccs p im ri<ciision tu ashe, and Iwynnii,

M11 Mr .1(Je0' 'rand, Ihr 1111)1111CnE. Ilarldpliy-

sician and a, positivist ArilkIdory, ac critical, 5cientisi of a p.;ist cp.uch,zi5 a "scho]arn who this in_lt want to speak with phantoms, Freudclaims not to believe ill death and above all in the virtual exiStelleeali Lhe s pe rail spat e whit;li be Jloilethr le5S takes Low a( COUllr.Likes it into 41ecount so :is to account For it, amid kic intends LIF ac-

count For it or prove it righi only whilc urc hw i ng it tea 3L^lncthir1

other than himself. that is to sav, to something, other than die other.I le 1..•ancs to explain and reduce the belief iii the phantom. Hei.-ants to think through the grain 01 truth of this belief, bin h t

I ,elieves. that o1ic CailL301 1544 11 , CIICVC in ElLeni and th l;lt 0I1C (ught no14) brlivvr in them_ Relief, the radical 141(T14,11LICILLIlk of belicving,only relationship possible to the her as other. does not in the rntlhave any possible place, any irreducible status in Freudian psycho-analysis. 'Which it Ilorittheless make.s possible_ Fromii.ivc: tic ar•havidogical L.11.10.1iddilt1,; 01;1 return to die realit!,, hereto the orOnary efkrtivitv Li r a 11;175C cif 11111MCdlaIC pcin..- cptic_pu._ Aniore profound and safer Kase th an dial of 1l.inold the arclu eo lo .gist. EYeri more archaeological. The parR-dox takes on ri sti acing,properly hallucinatory, 13rin at the monwrit Freud sees himselfe^ltl igcd to Jet the phantoms tilrAk. 101 WC duration of the rirehaeo-

Jogical digs but Hilishes by ex.oreising them in the moment he Atlast says, the work having been terminated (or supposed to lustlac..rn), "Stones talk!'" fie bdieves lie has exorcised them in the in-stant he 10.5. ILILCE11 talk, provided that these specters tank, he tteHeves, in the figurative., Like stones, th:n

3, Third theysis and third saireneliZTe fhighrr bid)

fhe ton- hand, 111:1 1)11it! has iliLIMinated better than Freud villatlunte cabled the arcliontic Of the whichpresupposes 1114)t air nrigi nary atiffte but the noinological ankhe

of the law, of institution, of domiciliation, of filiation. No one hasanaly7ed, that is also to say', deconstructed, the alai [writ), of the.:trchontic principle better than Ile. No one has shown how ibis

paternal and ir.itriardll.i.;, pri3Kiplc only posited it-self to repent itself and rctiirried tea re-pusit itself unly in parricide.T t iimotifitS to repressed or suppressed parricide, in 1.11C 13;ifliC Of thehither as dead father. The arc - bonne is at best the takeover of thearchive by the brothers. l'hr miklality and the liberty Sur brothers, ACt-Jtaill, Still idea 0141r.1110Cracy.

nut rhr other hand, in tire as its his WOritS, tit. 111S 11)4.7.010k4.1d

theses as iii the compulsion of his institutionalizing str.negy, Prcudrepeated the patriarchal logic. 1 le riecla red, notahl• in The Ratfan, that the patriarchal right (Kiterrecht) marked the civilizing

progress or reason. l ie el en ac.141cci to it in a pacriarchic higher bid,even 1.1.'lleft• all hiS inheritors, the psychoanalysts of all cowl! ries,

have willed th4-110.•l•es as a single Marl ELF .11.1.111J'er' lkirn :and Et3 raisestakes. Tn the point that certain people can wonder if, decades

;Alter his death, his sons, so many brothers, can yet speak in theirtJWIL MUM. Or if his daugh14.r ever came to life (thel, tlevranyilung othyr than a phantasm 4)r ;1 SpeC...EC1 1 Gradiva reclizimr, a

Zoc-Itcl tgang passing through :11 B•rggasse 19.

95

.21, t he! 4 1 13, r]le' r II Ible bytr,1133cn

.114 mined sive - [4: lir?8],-C.1141'11...Lrim .. w11 thc c5cL. ay.;111.1.111

Postscript

By cliailor, I more these last words on the rim of Vesuvius, rightllear Pompeii, less thaJk right days ;Igo. For iut3re than twenty ytars,each time live returned to Naples, I've thought of her.

Vii'ho better avail Gradiva, I said to myself this Iiinc, the Grad rturat Jcnse ❑ and of 1-i'reIKI, could Lltustrate this outbidding in ihe morfd'art -hive? Illustrate -it where it 15 no longer proper LC} Freud and toilliS coliccpt of the :archive, wlitie it rnarkS in its very str nettlre (and

'his is fliPPI-"110J-f-dry :hest') die rolTnillicui of . ei•ery concept,the Vr ry hist4,1y of conceptinn:'

Whtm he wants to explain the haunting of he a rclyaei ?logi$r witha logic -uirepreshitm, at the very moment in which he specifi es thathe w tiLs 10 teCogilizie in it a grrrn Ora parcel of truth, Freilil a l im5Si ;,Lint to bring to light mort- origin -my than that or th.cspecter. tin the oiltbiddili g , co be 411 archivist vpillo is moreOf 211 arell_ACni °gist than the archaerangist, rlaad, of rim rSe p Closerthe ultimate came. better etiologist Ilion his intyvchst.nallaine it more archaic inipraliOn, he w.;ints 10 exhibit a illorT ar

rmirrira than the one tlLe Other aschaeologiqs or all k inds1310 4.11c riem104.1,. those 4 )f . jtid Ilkost.• ril objeciivescience, an impriiii thiir is sit4;4112r each 111.m

is aliriosi no longer an archive but -Almost confuses itself with thepressure of the foutstep that leaves its Innrk an a sub-s! MU`, Li S.Urface, .1 ptic.e of origin. 'When the- step is sill one withthe sulik-otilc. iillti.tra ....Aker) clic prmEed areho,c is yet to

hr detaCillcd iron] t]t' prill)ary iinpreshiun -1.11 its. S ingular, irrepro•

41tIcible., arc hair, of NUL In au. Umlaut when the ijapr i ut i s yo.

to he left. 4Lhandoncil 1 .1 3 . the pressurc of the iPriptcssimi, the -111.-

5tanr 4-dihc pure auto-affection, in the indistinctron of the .ictivc

and the passo.e,. 01 a muching am.] the touched_ An archive which

viiould ilk Sum confuse %%.i.th the arkiii.5, with the origin u•whi4.11 it is only ile tyitie. 111C rypt.ik. the letter ur character_An aldliivr archive, WhiCIT, fit)11.1

Eh(' intpICSSi(111 (11 its imprint, Gradiwis footstep %peaks by its4.-111

Now this is CS:arlly what plane lfi diteilunCd of in his disurich.Thrrd

3 rckzicologist's desire. in 1.1 .m. moment %Olen he awaited the-corninglie - mid-day gl if Fst.. -

I I;u s From archive. liwcr. le haN the suclk(c

ularchACcdogy, Hc had, the novel says, 114:•OILle .1 master ita the ar t

of dvciphering the most indecipherable, the innst •rligmntie graffiti

(in de EmzfferfeNR Ichay-r eutratselburrr graftin). 13tic he had lind.r-nuugh ddl his scicnce and of his abilittc.s. His iraRaticiit desire. re.'-

brilcd against their positivity as if before 4_1cath. This science itself%vas of the past. What it tatight, he said to himself, is a Fill:it:1.N .11- -

Ch coloRit ntuitiim (dote IchLst firehrMlogische ti.ccharetryg).

in the moment when Pompeii conies back to life, when the dend

awake (a'ic Lew:Area auf, uta l'arupeji ling an, wierlieV 1. 01),

lanold u1141Crstaadls ev el v thing. Fir undei stands why he had trav-

eled through l&oltie and Naples.. Ile begins to know (wessr-n) what

he dill not then L ni1W, nairiely his drive" orAnd tins knowlcdgc, t, cronpreliminli,, this dveEphr-ring of the

interior desire to decipher which drove him On lo Pompeii, all rif

this conics back to him in an act of memory (Erinnerung). F-k

LAN that he (411114.e to sec if he could find her traces, the iraces of

foci.tsEcps (r., 1) co . Auer en alit Jiro. auffinden kbime).

rc iw here` is a which is never taken into ii{L.APlUllt,

ilk Jensen's reading. nor in Freud's. and this point Cfmfvklikcis incrru

than it distinguishes: I ianold has conic to starch for these traces inthe literal sense weirtirthey Sinne). E lc dEtAins of bringing backto life. I le drealti rathr.• of It:living. Hut of rehving the other_ Of

reliving the singular pressure linpryssirni wit:14,11 Gradiv.a's step

the SIrp itself, I he step of Gradiva herself, th at %.-cry day, at

chat that date, in w.lat wias inimitable a lIOklt 11, 111111.St haVe

left in the ashes.. f he dreams this irreplaecablc placr, thy very ash,

where tIki 5inguiar imprint, like a signature. barely distinguishes

['self' from the iiiij5ression. And this i5 the Condition of singularity',.

idiom, the secret, testimony. It rk 1he condition for the unique,

ness. of the plinier , prinici.l, of the inipreSsinn And the imprint, ofthe pressure and its trace in the unkikiC insfani wherc they are not

yet distinguislitd the one from the other, forming in an IFIffiltd

iingIe body u (railiva's st ep, of lker gait, ref her pact (Cavan.). and

of the ground which carries them. The trace no longer distin-

guishes itself from its substraee, No Ringer distinguishoLg beuvetyl

themice-ire.r, this prrs51,11re ani I this imprint &bin r hvinc cforthfroma il

adze/ LininT5.510111S, from all other it sprints, and from all other ar -

Chi\ c'N. At least that imprint (Abdruck), distinct from all the others,

must l rediscovered—but this presuppickses both memory and the

rdinev. glue oric and thc other ;LS Ike, right u.r diC,AUNIc stdire_Bile in the f3eld f cX.•avritions. Ft nni5L ]ac rrsusCitatcd right where.,

in an akolutel7i; safe lorgtion, in an irreplaceable place, it still holds,

right on the ash, not yet having detached itself, the pressure ni

kiLiiiVa ' S SEJ Singidiar step.This Is what ihmuld the archaeolugist means in a literal SUM('

by the literal '"In the literal sense" Om wOrdielben tin.

story says:

'cantr.• into hi5 coriseitnisness for the first time 1.zum

twitelt Wai l; "ith oli t being aware hirnself of the iinpul5c within

him, he hold wine to Italy and had 1 ra'hiclud Oil ter POINX.'li With-

SlOpping iii Home or Naples, in 4...ncler to sec whether

could find any traces her, And 'tr:1Cce in the literal .ceriscrelic err Sinnd: for with her iTetilinr gait she must have kit

behind an imprint iilbrifticid of her (.042A kn the ashes disti nc t

l'iroin all like rest.' I..YE 9:65, !rails. modiftec11 2 '

22. " ... rnr windirhen Sitkilc, girrtrk Ixk ihrrl bchuntIcfck1 tlilthste

sie in dcr Ashe (-linen von licn tintcrwheiticilcicn Abdruck (lerittnterlusten habcri.."

This uniquriitss does not resist. Its price is infinite. Lint infinitein the extent to whi ll ii remains 1_111-

find:1111e. The posciliility &if the Archiving trace, thibrty„ can only clivide the uniqueness. Separating the impression humdie imprint. .Because this uniqueness is not even a pAst present, Itwould have beer' possible, !JEW can dream of it after the fact, orik

:is its iterdbilitv, that is to say, it5 'immanent divisibility. thenr its fission. 1,,,nnt,..-d it front the origin. The tAilliftil

111(1'004y of such a singularity Cali only Ex given over to the 5[iect4.•tIs fiCri4.)n outdone hcre? Does it rack kmiwledge? Did ierisen

know less about This than 1-sretid? 21 And Harrold?One can dream or speculate alound this secret acec.outu.

Speculation begins 3]1Cle—kilkd 1'01A- But (Pith(' secret Itself" then:Cal] 1 1C nil ardtive l by definition. I'lie secret is site \ cry ash of thearchive, the place where it no longer even makes seits,r• to say - till:

y ash Ira ( -entire menper or - right on tht ash metptr fee roarer'There is no SCI1St.e in scarch.ing stir the Secret of . what anyone mayinivc known. tlfr,tfir_il a Chili aster, Hanoi(' lilt a lcItaccoingist.

That is wlint this liter:min.! attestA. So here is a singular testi-mom., literature itself, an inheiitor otuajw4.1.--or c.,,,anc i patcd_from. lit Scriptures. Here is 1...hat it gives lis to think: the-in-6131;1Hk-

23. it is knirrvirri that Freud .1141 rLa1 fail I., i„,, '5,36111,

% t 1 ;Ile.g.I.i ;It u m r (115,00111. rung, he: does i4 15(ICC to It in its gertetal form rnortorir 1141:;13:14111, inLt -11150 das 4:x.1311 plc 1 ,riC1.11 u k rem 4 11 ] lenseri'.5 Gra-

draa, iter.drtsr ai lie risPIti;, pfOrmiNr+, an rtiol.pgy Acid ,1 gri - hr.illigy 4 ifI 1:14Pulors "dclusiiiq D4.1 then bald up in the- lace of science' After havirigriMpim•c1, IIt , J11141 dclitx-Lalc14 surprtstlig laslat:41, tea ft-ATI5.1: (11C

I•rilt5 (3! 115 vicnct• ihar Lliwc lies luolci up raL.E. 1 I:rciarlculteS1lungs. l l profios.c5 to aI]% the whifilar of a new wit-arc, ;Ind

bi:Lltr mined, noyelib.t. I. Lcr Will DO( Ix.. atone rtla•irkuri k•ork S AN 1 ) : 1 111 4.1 1 :ICirth Frctid.1 Llys.. dad Ii 11C Lail Icat•r 1115.

iirovi?drirtal 3SE.11.;ilion. A rtc)te 14.)12 remarks that thit 1 , 11.1Atiun i. rcirrillig

1.0 Ain . . MCAT ineni n simrtecl by me has t:CCOHICwidely r , L anal y 1.51 1.4:5

15 SO cut /mill anodic r 1:H1411i ni view in Chapter 4. whl ichl 4114 1 111r

(ilyeitil.1x itir gotten Along ..vay: "But we unUSI Ship here, or we may

fiLrgcc dial I idtral(1 .an41 Gradrvil are aril). ....feattireS cli their anthill'smirar ISE :93I. amothur I,rri n1 5If will 1,..41i.c up these

1r ts anti thicseciiiestion.s of nittAni terpreta Live out I i

secret of Cr nal LW,. of I 111114,111.1, Of Jensen, MIN] tilCrl Lir FrCliti—iiiLd

Of 3 few others. Beyond every possible metcs....ary inquiry,

will always ii.voni.ler Freud (kw vecry "carritil

concealer" may lust Wanti...d to ktep secret. We will wonderhe may havr kcpi miconditionall rig.lit to sec recy, while at the

saint. IIIEW ' ,Milling with the itCSIFC ti/ J !Now, 10 IlliakC kilOW11., and

to archive the ...Try thing lie euricral•tl forevcr, th ilithat W.ms con.

cealcd? What- did he conceal even beyond the intention to coriccni,

to ItC. , or to per UrWr ti4 ill .irwdys wi mdc.r v414.11., ! his Med trarciliVe, lie niay

burned- \Arc `11"---15 "mkterN Nildring cutnEmmitin in Wit.,

archivc fever., kt.rhat may have buried cri his secret passions, 4_11 Its

CE.11- 1-4 5p01141e11(C, or o r hi s "lirr ," ,..,ttrri‹..11 without Ilion, wil-min re.mains and without knobvIcAlge. With no po..Y.F.ible resp.ouse, 1N... itspectral or 1101,1110EL oral- beyond a suppression, on the other edge

of reptcssimi, origniary or NeCOMI.11V, without Z.1 31;1111C, vvithout theleast symplom, and witElulil clectl ;Uli ash_

Naples, 22 —2 May 1994

RANSLATUR'S NOTE.Ent- 1"renowit7

Right o /2

n7en2e1

Arifart, tradurre tt r fig.reet ' e par lyagiurre, I

CLISIO 13 is Offi CU, ilidge ;micl exccutur, mountebank incli UM, im-passive impostor, forger of authority. illiL ral host ;Ind ungracious

guest, lIke Lranslator should nc..er really be there_

I I reS aliodicr %v." y of saying the same thing: 3 ruanslabufsis giving up. Rendering, and very )111C11 'Ending, e.ich time IN ecric k-ing. Caught in an in traCtibk double bind, immemorial 311E1 illfiiii rely iterated, kilM must decide or rulc.01 . fivarranchrr. right v./ h r rcthe iilloinatic snarl won't lx untied. It Ricans giving up the dreainof all urforilcss and silciit living transfusion, itninediatc and un-

t iga Li ninrd 'La red_ (jiving, uEi. giti ing, in calk-, winds, bcciabci II the first plarc the• C104.$ Elul lir Icing to yE i, I .1 ild 54.!14_liz I

it Will riot jo any Cate Ii .ive been liandcd over in [Art .

BuL giving. nonethelcss, Getting and hcgctting_ Forgiving, per-haps Iir. gi en. Giving fOrgetting I cti .

And yet 15. Clikinetilly plausible; whin's more it

happens all die Film. A IncelvallicAl gimp,: of C4).M`SpOliclelliCCS, iii

in, OD MCV PI ANC' Iniid1111V. EiCiaLly.e rhOtliirig etiCapcs, thcrr's not a

C. Li 'lin apue.dypnque Udfittite FhigA4Ii.re en phrioropkie (Paris: i tee, 1983),10.

0 435

single word iktt Calk be Liken, by ruse or by furcc, WILich dues 110E1 )10;111 1 1)01t ;4[1 I are ritually 1.1:1(111131 Li( Thcrr-:are irte•s'ltat l^l y trAde-offs. along the way arid never an 4.•1141 iit 5ight.Set in motion , the in iltati,,,rmi process stops fir no one. Sn tyhilr

FaliSgt ec. ,53VC ILI re may he formally irresistible, there is no Cidilnii1VCbey definition. At 5,0111c point tnie simply has to give tip.

Things Art- han.111.. better for tale reader, of ctior se.

Willy-nilly, and tArraati.r mutant/is-, trAnslation's readers arc ni-si:liked into a position {3 r "ahsolute dissymmetry arid hellt'rfUltlilly "

(p. 11} as DEE" icla sap- of a boy bring circumcised, of l'reud's1)lb..1121.0n1 N•lion ftJ pruanins "I shall say 'we,' and ofanyone :m14144•5501 anV►ile CAW; you read sorticthilig you cannot.read, Cr] any case something }'Ott Will MIL have read Lint- t! )4)11 ' red(MIC rta(Iing. Like infant 5,0)4) call neither compiThend norruspond. And while .Mn author may he a leader's ghnst, in transla

tion the text itself' is presented witholit being present: it is here andyrt A tran)lation is incsporisible, deceptive. YetimpoNing. Authoritarian ilnoi ;kuthoritarive. It ii ni rresistible covc.naht. Whereas a loreign text in the 0$4gmill ICAVC5,

'be reader free, because the reader is oar a reader, the text 'wingforeign MO illegible for those who hake not doint_sii-cak-i.1 (he other Inullier tongue., IL clues not 5uppmc and impos e a

wr, bc....nisc: 10 begin with it says uwe'" differently, that LS, it lite:r-Illti n4)1 say ".1..vr." Rather, and precisely I 11-.11144114).ILZ.11WayS rCIA:LIIM; possible, it inseribrs the lir51 itc , die Niligillarity orthe exira oidinary eorntnork to any we. Arid pia ri train ciati()11 doccviolclicc at once to the text to which it offers an arnbip,uous hospi-tality, INA h bccking anri balking, an' I 0_1 else reaelt:r: it takes some-

thing foreign and k Nometliing rca(labir at JeasL andihcreliy irriJ.ii4e.s inf11113.i1 Ale community 4)r 01honicwolingtlistic

] ICE v. (best: can perhaps be excused, ic .Mr we must readF )•i rigid, and v.T1I. 1 II.,w4:vcr, ales; tend to conceal anothc- Otle Elmt

is tnnrc 1,P•rniciotls wtide not wholly unpU13111t101U4: whatever it mayChange, ;i I r;111Alit inn d's rorcen _helicon', ittier- true fiction I hat tianslation is possible, It es Ihis fiction, both

hopeful a1ts.1 frightening, promiAing coninkunication where none by

possih1C,. :WO SimiLlLillietnisly

possible communication of difference itself so to speak, reprding

difference, or of its incommunicability—and so t Racing a vital,

ineffable otherness pruifeled b llkc oll1Lcr idiom.

EVelL Mi l things are 13114)re For [fall:1116W). is VCry

much at work within Dcrricla's "French' texts; the SiL14:14.74.)1L i

problem or the concept hin also the act of translation with its tex-tual effects and dIckcts. F01 instance, at a certain point (p. 75), Der-

rida discusses a passage in Yerushalini where' the exprvssion 'dra-

in:111C CVILI•IVICC 14.11•s ill the English original, It1 his French test

(13_ 120), nerrida limes Ike Ira rislati4 311. 'evidence thurtratique" ill Tic p

laitilMinark5. Though evidcri•c 211CI et.'idence rife C4.1gri:ites, r ;in%

lain!' is problematic because. the French word signifies primarily

"suinttbing obvious," such that the French phrase alone would

tclktl to trauslate more like -dramatic obviousness"' than "dramatic

4.-vidence- - So in du' FletiCh r Derridd follows thin ifaridation With

Ilic• F:nglisIi in parentheses, and IE7eIS a •luin or alternate transla-

tions or translation modifiers: proof, mark, clue, testimony „ .

.1110-SC word 5 5e.ive ru correct the translation, reorienting the

;SCUINC hutracer ro better approximate the meaning of etli.irm - e, so

many linguistic exhibits displayed to incriminate the felicity (of such

a Linn.' ry accounting hit this uncountable noun,

How to translate this setilienee from .11aLd'arc-hive- into F.riglish?

COLTCCE Soli] non wOUltl rm doubt have been to restore in a woo I

thc "dramatic cicidenee - of Yerushaltni's text, rendering rive lines

of Ft click hJi twiJ F.ilglish words. And VC-I this approach t4_.10. would

have [wen guilty of economic ilifidelity, because ill the

urn of its vcrliume rendition, the French translation is not simiply a

tralisiati011_ It replaces as a translation must, ln,c1 in [lac

comtnotiOrt it. Says wore, it {Jar's more, it goes ftlrther17J 1. ra rislatio-n,.

while ;kr no point i;eaJing to translate. And of COUFSC a translation

is a going-fni diet, gtiing beyond the idiomatic limitations that are

the very enniiition of linguistic expre5sion,, of signification, of any

Mink called culture: striul IV speaking it es c1i.11iLI: iinru.s5.11)11c.

it must at once follow nod forge ahead_ S I brought

"dramatic evidence" out of the parentheses. dropped "-evidencedrainalicpc, - 1.)1IL at translat iOli of the sequence modifying, cha I-

riiilorcuig thk: tianslatioli of evidence as eLflartnCe ill pa-

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tionall reverie, it is as if the archaeolngist had succeeded in platingthe archivist out of work. And Ow tranSlalor loo s of collisc. Yet111E-.4 - %gone% ;ire Jill:hives, Afrd evequilic kflriws. aidlives do nut9)cak. C'h'en anSvivring 111:ichi lie's. OrIlly the' Lins%ver. Andwhat is more, in Freud's 5ecriario, these arrhives .urn rlltt to Iii

biliuguaL Elio/ are cht: ❑ 11 5 0.1:1 1eCS alrtady translations u themselves,ilicY '!'11c;31, a dcad language and at living WIC, (4Cek u id Gerrnanfor exanaph., .4 bit like limoId in his encounter with Uradivn, orat least as dead-and-Forgotten ILIC:111 language alkci lieSS Li cad 011c

Willa) WI 11 1perrnik them in rtl to he "de( i1 ir ;MCI ralLNiarC4i "

(p. 9_”. So these. 5 t 4.MCS, archives yielding "undreamed-of(kin aboin the events of the rcinotc past." can hardly hr taken forpure firthj: ..11 discoveries iri c ". :)-1:.11-cxplajtat.ory, "it I..; rPrily insofar as thew' rilready a Ciki: 11 DUNA 5 inn i Li

Archival toil, And not al all hecause the events they r CL'Ori I (mildwithout archivization. It is certainly not Wit hotit sigriific.mier

that they should beIiti hr id, dead/living, ugly. That stones. whichunglil to lac dead, N114,11.1.1d talk, whirls only the liYirig ought to do..nor that this event should ircr (wined in a pal Ocularw:w herr, where the "Sionr-3 whir in italics,. with exclamationpoint, and above all in Latin. the dead language living in Ficiid"sown Ivh-brid text.

f = ear it-'etre.r can be written down lo an instant, it is thethe instanianeou5 event a5 overdcterinination, In other

‘vorils. cxreedtlig List iI 1.11ICOIVI al net] caking fur its ar-chivizAtion hccause Already containing the sccds a its umill;.1 Al Eve.,Divided in. ;1 nd of itself. Calling but not neec's5,-1filv ;insWering forits archive. Because one can scarcely' believe that when called upon;IS Ll ter Witilcs3 iv its singularitv or its originality, to the rigi-ikal singularity that it an event any more than a living beingLi evrr responds in in airsohlti -iy living and infinitely welkadjustedritannCi, vcithoUr the leaSi A 17 t 4-5 1 .11.1r1Siin i CYCC having an 4ir-

(Jima I technique overflow the singularity of an i-vent „" (p.\Vithout :wine answering r»achirie effect, Norric spectrality in therespi)I1Sc and ti"111h. 41.1.1.;likil k thr hVing. VI. h i(h LS to say that the. rm-pPr.c.Oem, ilic unique nwiliictit of archivi7.-Ation, "producesas it rcCrirds tilt: event" . IT. 1 7), While nonetheless 'King the' (until-(1.1H1 01 . its potential ircpC.Tition; it illev•T neutrally consigns a pre

existent arc hivable content in a SimiTIC manner_ Conversely, insofaras it is archivable, an event is always arc)wing: an event is an ar-CliiVilig act (n en if dint: way nut be a "proper . ' arCllikic and even ifthy art:hi...Lc or an cccul, as its iiilcrinctalton, 4.11.WayS [entail!.

Olycn. Anil ihis is where the clues-tion of archival 14.-chtinlogy is su

signifi E:;1. IA, for it "contlition5 the igl7pYr rtii0.17, 1)C1:131e the divisionbetIp'Vetu printed and printer' (p. it). What i5 the printcd here? Tsit the attliive. or printed content, 'Lc. what is arChpvc& Arid isdie puller the e'lictit that I V.VieTS its Iflipriark, that is archived, or the

LStrticture 111)4kt prints"? hefof chand we do cwt know.Thcrc is the f414)1 ;HMI there is the :mil, But as Gradiva's sole, or

Harold's lor that inatIVI, Of so many others', tOtichcs the ground,the lout, the Icg, the a,, arid the earth below serve together as asort of C .1 InOillentary printing i.lress that will leave

archjYt: cycll as it disappears forever, And this is the trurth of theevent 01 c)I, I r thy true event of the event, neither material norhistorical: "before. the division: as thc and dcad inavmingic their steps, and we'll never know for .sure who's who or

what's what_Right U.11 the ask, Dcrricla says, even if it inake5 no senSe. And;

JP?i".19JC_

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Pohn,1.140-ear leimaie, r LS: C ;:111iMC,

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Freud', Sigmund. The ii.:(impiere 1_este7J of Stgnurnd Freud BY 1.31rihrirn1C1 0.11. 11,1MS. III I 4:11 ,Icif.14.y Mel V•11,11. .:1.11111f idge, MA:

Elorvard 1985.Tfic .tangichti l rfatrurj cif the :r0furiele Piyehological Works vf.SIR

In and Fic;(41..h -In5. faincs Sii.i41icy.1,01111011; IIogairrii. 1'153 - 74. ISO1.1511;1111111, Yr 1 4;{• 1.'n- rtar.:; Alrore- r: 1rivirrign crud 'Ergo thli

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