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It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

Jacques Derrida

Desire, Archives, Return

Jacques Derrida (1998). “Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

Contrary to what phenomenology- which is always phenomenology of perception- has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

Jacques Derrida

Believe, Perception, Desire

Jacques Derrida (1978). “Edmund Husserl's Origin of Geometry: An Introduction”, p.9, U of Nebraska Press