Derrida on memory & ghosts

Ken McMullen, Ghost Dance (1983) Derrida describes an ‘unnatural’ ghostly haunting whereby the dead are taken into us, but they are not internalized as they would be under more ‘normal’ circumstances (a psychoanalytic view of mourning) – he labels this as ‘terrifying.’ Derrida recounts his 1982 arrest in Czechoslavakia on trumped-up drug charges … see […]