| Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression | |
| Title Orig: | Mal d'Archive: Une Impression Freudienne |
| Author: | Jacques Derrida |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Subject: | The Archive |
| Publisher: | Éditions Galilée |
| Release Date: | 1995 |
| English Release Date: | 1996 |
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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 and then as a book by University of Chicago Press in 1996.[3]
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]