Archive Fever

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
	Cover of the first edition
Author	Jacques Derrida
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
Media type	Print

Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression (French: Mal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne) is a book by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

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]

Summary

In Archive 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]

References

^ Zografos, Stamatis (2019). "Architecture and Fire". London: UCL Press. p. 22. Retrieved 2024-05-23. 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.
^ ^a ^b Derrida, Jacques; Prenowitz, Eric (1995). "Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression". Diacritics. 25 (2): 9–63. doi:10.2307/465144. ISSN 0300-7162.
^ "Books by Jacques Derrida published by the University of Chicago Press". press.uchicago.edu. Retrieved 2024-05-23.
^ Sampson, Walker. "From My Archives: Derrida's Archive Fever". Walker Sampson. Retrieved 17 April 2017.