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1997

Deconstruction

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Review Of Derrida's Archive Fever And Caputo's Deconstruction In A Nutshell, Jeremy Barris Oct 1997

Review Of Derrida's Archive Fever And Caputo's Deconstruction In A Nutshell, Jeremy Barris

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Derrida's beautifully written and clear Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression is concerned with the establishment of Freud's London house as a museum or archive, with the interpretation of Freud's public and private texts as the source or archive of psychoanalytic science, and with the identification of sources and beginnings generally. Derrida's focus is on how psychoanalytic insights themselves problematise this identification. Caputo's Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation with Jacques Derrida sets out specifically to correct widespread failures by Derrida's critics to notice the novelty of the implications of Derrida's position (48). The book consists in a 26-page record of …