jacques derrida

“ Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead a dead parent, for example can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. ”

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“ To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. ”

“ Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text; there is always a genre and genres, yet such participation never amounts to belonging. ”

“ Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts. ”

“ It is just that there be law, but law is not justice. ”

“ The lie is the future, one may venture to say. To tell the truth is, on the contrary, to say what is or what will have been and it would instead prefer the past. ”

“ That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break. ”

“ Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death. ”

“ There is no simple answer to such a question. ”