ERIC Number: EJ983460
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Jul
Pages: 16
Abstractor: ERIC
Reference Count: 49
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ISSN: ISSN-0013-1857
Archiving Derrida
Morris, Marla
Educational Philosophy and Theory, v35 n3 p297-312 Jul 2003
Derrida's archive, broadly speaking, is brilliantly mad, for he digs exegetically into the most difficult textual material and combines the most unlikely texts--from Socrates to Freud, from postcards to encyclopedias, from madness(es) to the archive, from primal scenes to death. In this paper, the author would like to do a brief study of the "madness" of Derrida's notion of the archive. The "madness" of the archives, the slippage of the idea or notion of the archive, reflects the slippage of the unconscious as a site of otherness. This site of otherness left by the Freudian impression in "Archive Fever" will be examined by the author's own archiving of three Freudian cases of "madness." A feverish education is one that is open to the "madness" of the archive as well as archiving "madness." The author argues that educators might become more open to the impossibilities/possibilities of thinking otherwise, to allow "madness" to enter their work as teachers and scholars. It is at the limit experience of madness that one begins to grapple with the other side of otherness.
Descriptors: Educational Research, Text Structure, Educational Philosophy, Archives, Mental Disorders, Difficulty Level, Psychotherapy
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