Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (French: Mal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne) is a book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Cover of the first edition
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| Author | Jacques Derrida |
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| Original title | Mal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne |
| Language | French |
| Subject | The Archive |
| Publisher | Éditions Galilée |
Publication date | 1995 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1996 |
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It was first published in 1995 by Éditions Galilée, based on a lecture Derrida gave at a conference, Memory: The Question of the Archives, organised by the Freud Museum in 1994.[1][2]
An English translation by Eric Prenowitz was first published as an article in the academic journal Diacritics in 1995[2] and then as a book by University of Chicago Press in 1996.[3]
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InArchive Fever, Derrida discusses the nature and function of the archive, particularly in Freudian terms and in light of the death drive. The book also contains discussions of Judaism and Jewish identity and of electronic technology such as e-mail.[4]
Archive Fever is a translation from the French of a lecture that Derrida gave at an international colloquium called Memory: The Question of the Archives that took place at the Freud Archives in 1994 in London.
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