Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis

Seon-Ryeong Cho

doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

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author={Seon-Ryeong Cho},
title={Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2016},
volume={49},
pages={3-28},
doi={10.17527/JASA.49.0.01}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seon-Ryeong Cho
TI - Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2016
VL - 49
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 3
EP - 28
SN - 1229-0246
AB - In this essay I want to examine the relation between modernist archive regarded as bureaucratic files of documents and post-modernist one regarded as a kind of aesthetic practice. After reviewing texts on contemporary ‘archive arts’ by curator Okwui Enwezor and critic Hal Foster, I try to analysis Jacques Derria's Mal d'archive, in the light of its connection to Lacan's psychoanalysis, by focusing on his criticism on Yerusalme's book on Freud as well as his review on Freud's text about Jensen's novel Gradiva. I suggest that Lacan's interpretation on Freud shares unexpectably common characters with Derrida's. By referring to Freud's concepts of dead drive and Primal Father, both Derrida and Lacan argue that the truth ironically emerges through ‘spectre’ or ‘fiction’. Aspiration of Yerusalme to hear Freud's voice directly and delusion of Harnolt (the protagonist in Gradiva) to experience ancient Pompeii by himself, are typical examples of ‘archive fever’ locating the paradoxical truth. In the archive without archive, the spectral truth comes to exist, according to Derrida. The archive fever not only destroys archives but also cause them. In conclusion, I argue that post-modernist archive is equivalent to visualized ‘spectral’ base of modernist one. In addition, I present the relation between August Sander's works and Bernd & Hilla Becher's as an good example of art practice recognizing and visualizing death drive in the modernist archive.
KW - archive;archive art;dead drive;Derrida;Freud;Lacan;Okwui Enwezor;Hal Foster
DO - 10.17527/JASA.49.0.01
ER -

Seon-Ryeong Cho. (2016). Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 49, 3-28.

Seon-Ryeong Cho. 2016, "Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.49, pp.3-28. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho "Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49 pp.3-28 (2016) : 3.

Seon-Ryeong Cho. Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis. 2016; 49 3-28. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho. "Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49(2016) : 3-28.doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho. Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 49, 3-28. doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho. Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2016; 49 3-28. doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho. Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis. 2016; 49 3-28. Available from: doi:10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

Seon-Ryeong Cho. "Archive and Dead Drive : Derrida and Psychoanalysis" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 49(2016) : 3-28.doi: 10.17527/JASA.49.0.01

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