Image-words, biographical writing and the ghosts of Derrida

Abstract

The impulse of this writing was a look from Derrida, who seemed to see without being seen, in D’ailleurs Derrida. The words-images of someone who has died, of their spectra, motivate the concerns that guide the text. The concepts of phalagocentrism, archival and spectrality are discussed, based on the works Of Grammatology, Archive Fever and Specters of Marx. The objective is to think to what extent writing, especially biographical writing, is permissive to the spectra or makes it possible to erase them. In the end, the question about the intention of the author who writes, to guarantee the permanence of his own existence or to point tirelessly to what remains refractory to the analytical and historical synthesis and the tendency to archivement.