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If the concept of the archive ever was an untroubled one, it certainly is no longer so. Postmodernism and deconstruction have made sure of that. What the archive is, how it works and in which ways it may be reconfigured are all questions that the elaborate, intertextual thought of our times tackles with characteristic self-consciousness and often unashamed opacity. In this context, Derrida’s extraordinary evocation of the intermingling of questions concerning the archive and psychoanalysis in Archive Fever is no exception.1
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van Zyl, S. (2002). Psychoanalysis and the Archive: Derrida’s Archive Fever . In: Hamilton, C., Harris, V., Taylor, J., Pickover, M., Reid, G., Saleh, R. (eds) Refiguring the Archive. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0570-8_5
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