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    Telepathy Jacques Derrida 9 ly 1979! So, what do you want me say, had a premonition of something nasty in it tke aword, ora worm, apiece of worm which would be apiece af word, tt which would seek to reconstitute ise, sidering, something tinted ‘which poisons life. And suddenly, precisely thee, onl there. stated lose my hat no, to lose some har which Was noi necessary mine, pe haps yours. was erying 1 keep it by making kaos which, one after te ‘otter came undone only to reform themselves frther on 1 felt frm 8 isance and confusedly, that was searching Yor & word pechaps proper ‘name (for example Claude, but Ido not know why I choose ths example right ow, 1 do not remember his presence in my dream). Rather it was the tem which was searching forme, i hd heii ing to me, and was doing is beso coletiseiby every means fora period time which 4 could not measure, all night perhaps, ad even more, oF else an hour ot three minutes, impossible to know, but iit a question here of knowing? The tim ofthis Word remains, does it not, especialy if it were a prope "ame, without comparison with everything which might sortund i. The ‘wort was taking is time, and by dint of following i youask me, ask myself where is this leading us, towards what place? We are absolutely unable to kao, forocast[prévoin, oresee, foretell, fortane tli Impossible anticipation, itis aways fom there tat I have addressed myself to you and you have Dever acepted it. You would accept it more patiently if something wasn't teting us, behind our back [par deriére] and inonder‘o subject ws there, that this place it, knaws ws, forecasts our coming, predicts us, us, accord. ing wo ls code [chifre, aso cipher’ “igure "tals, Suppose that ah ichronism which resembles no other unvtedgesldéeale| ust liso di ples the block [les eas], brakes or accelerates as if we were late with Fespectto that which has lvedy happened ious inuhe future, bone which foresees us’ and by which T sense us predicted, anticipated, snapped up, 4 Jacques Dernida called, summoned from. single casting, a single coming [une seule enue], Called, you bear? you bear this word in several languages? 1 was trying to explain to hi forher, wo translate ito him the other day, this first smile Timterupied snd T atk myself askmyseThow tp deform the syntax with ‘outiouching tas st adistance. Atstake here is what'd like to call he ol ‘ew phrase, a8 they say aver there, you remember, the ole synagogue, ask myself, ot myself, 6 not myself that Task, i 36 myself dat 1 ask for when I sk myself, you that I ask. But you eannot answer fr the mo- ment, only when Ihave met up with you again, Incidentally do you know that you stved ay life again the other day when with an infinitely forgv jing movement yu allowed met tell you where the touble le mal iss ‘etum always foreseeable, the catasirophe coming in advance [prévenane 1, “warning called, given, dated. 1s readable on aca dar, with is proper name, classified, you hear this word, nomencltured, I ‘wasn't sufficient to forese orto predict what would incest happen ove tay, forecasting isnot enought would be necessary co thnk (at does this mean ere, do you kw?) what would happen bythe very factof being predicted or foreseen, a sor of beau apocalypse telescoped, Kalidos ‘coped, triggered of 2 hat very moment by the precipitation of the an rouncemet self, consisting precisely in this announcement, the prophe fy retuming to self from the future ofits own to-come [2-venr, also “future, writof summons"). The apocalypse takes place at the moment ‘when I write this, bu present of this type keeps a telepathic or premoni tory affinity wit lf (it senses ise ata distance and wars itself of ‘sl which loses me on the way and makes me scared. Thave always rem Died before what 1 know inthis way, itis also what scare and ‘through which distr them as well, send them to sleep sometimes. su fer from t. Doyo think that am speaking her ofthe unconscious, guess Task my: selfthis, Task you: when itplays, rom the ta, the absence or rather he indeterminacy of some addressee which it neverbelessapostophises, @ published leter provokes events, fad even the event it foresees ane fre telly, whats going on, ask you. Obviously Yam not aking about al the ‘events which any writing or publication at al gives ise stag with he tmost effaced of marks, Think rather ofa series of which the addressee ‘would form pat, he o she if you wish, you for example, usenown ath time tothe one who writes; and from that moment te one who Writes is Jacques Derrida 5 ‘not yet completely an addessor, nor completly himself. The addressee he ‘or she, would let herimself be produced by the ltr, fom (depuis) programme, and, he or the, the addressor aswell. Lean no longer se very ‘leary, lam stalling /ecale] abit Look, -merying Jem’ exerce|: suppose {hal ow wnte alee without determinable address lt would be encrypted ‘oranonyrous, it doesn't much mater, snd I poblish thus using the credit Till have with ou publishing system, slong with ll st suppors i Now suppose that someone replies, addressing herhimelf first. De presumed signatory of the lee, who is supposed by convention to merge with he “rel” author, ere with "me" who is supposedly ts creator The publisher forwards the reply. Ths isa possible route, there would be others and the thing which itoess me can happen even ifthe aforessid reply does not luke the form of a missive in the everyday sens and ifs despatch 04 enitusted 1 the postal nsituson, So I become the Signor oF these let ters thatare sai tobe fictive. When I was ony the author of book! Trans ‘se that to the side of what hey sl all the unconscious, ranpose in any ase, its transference (transfert, also “vansfer’} and telepoatics which, ‘deep dov, are weaving away. Hencounter ihe other on his occasion tis the frst tne, apparently, and even if according to another appearance 1 have known the other, ike you, for years. In this encounter the destiny of lifes note, oF Several ives at be same time, cersialy more tan v0, always more thantwo. anal situation you will 3, it happens every da, forexample between novelists, joumaliss, hie readers and their audience Bat you haven't go the point. fam no pating forward the hypothesis ofa lew which would be he extemal occasion, in some sense, of an encounter between two identifiable subjects—and who would already be determined, ‘No, batofa let which afer the event sems to have been laches owed some unknown addressee atthe ‘known to himselF or herself if ne can say tat and wo is determined 8 ‘yu very well ki bow tobe, on rece ofthe leer this shen uit other thing han the ransferlransert} of amessage Is content ant its end ho longer presede it. So then, you identify yourself and you commit your lite to te program ofthe lene, or rater ofa postcard, of a eer whichis, open, divisible, tence transparent an eneryptes, Te program says noth ing, it neither announces nor sates anything, not the Sighestcanent i doesn't even present ise asa program. One Cannot even say that ook ikea program fart programe), but, without seeming 1, i works, it po rams [fats llprograname], So you S418, uniquely I who am able to 6 Jacques Derrida receive this eter not hat it has been reserved forme, onthe contrary, Dut Teowive as a prcent te shance to which this card daivers elf falls tome [Elle m choi, A | choose that should choose me by chance, I ‘vish to cross its pat, Fant tobe thee, [can and Twast—is path or is transfer In shor you say "Twas me’, with a gene and terrible decison, (ite differen: no comparison here wit iemfyng with the hero of 3 ‘ovel You say me'the unique addressee and everyting sasbetween us. Starting out from nothing, ftom no histo the poscard saying. nota single wort which hold (qu tem}, Saying oF aller de even predicting ‘me’ ou don’t have any illusion about the divsibiity ofthe destination, you don even inspect t yo it oat (commiting yourself toiteven forte niy—-I weigh my words—and you ask youself if Lam describing ori fm commiting wat staking place at his Very moment), you ae there 0 receive the division, you gather it together without reducing it without arming i, you fli ive and everything stas between us, om you, ae what youthere give by reogiing, Others would coaclude:alener ds inds its addressee, him or bet” No, ne cannot say of te adresse that she exists before the leer (avant la lez]. Besides, if one believed i one considered tht you ide yourself With tbe addressee as if with af tional character, the quesian would remain: now isi possiie? how can te idenify with n addressee who would yepresent a character so absent rom the book, tally mute, indeserbable? For you remain indescribable, tunnamable, and this isnot novel, ofa shor story, or aplay. of an ep al trary representation is excluded from this. OF oovse you protest and I hear you, an L accept tat you're ight Ue ze donne raison it.‘ give you ‘reason’: you say tat you begin by identifying with me, apd, in me, with the hllowed.out igure llafigure en ren dessinde ofthis absent female) addressee with whom | myself davai along je me muse]. Cenanly, ant Yyou are right, as aways, but tno longer to you that Tsay ds, or with youthat wish o play ahs, you know i's you, so put yourself ine place ‘fanother reader lectice)i¢doesnt rater who, who may even be an, {female reader letrce] ofthe masculine gender. Anyway what happens here, you wel know, my angel, isso much more complicated. What Va able fo extract from i im oder to speak about it could aot in principe ‘measure up oi, not only because ofthe weakness of my dscourse is pov te, chosen or notin ru i could only ever add a furber complication, leat (fel father ayeringffeulet ote trcture of whats hap Detng end across which I hold you against me, kissing you continuously, ooques Derrida 7 tongue deep inthe mouth, near a station, and your hair in my two hands, uta thinking of single person, ofthe one and only, the mradwoman who would be abe to say afer the Leiter “itis, it was aleady I, hat will have been I nd in the night of this wagered certainty commits her life © it without retum, takes all possible Asks, Keeps upping the stakes without trembling, without a safety net, ke the wapeze aris that have always heen, All hat can be done gelly, must even entus itself to genueness, without show and as fn silence. We must not even speak of i ogether and everything would bein ashes upto this eer hee 9 July 1979 ‘You krow my question: wy do the theoreticians ofthe performative or of pragmatics ake so lite interest, tomy knowledge, inthe effects ofthe wai {enobjct, eleterin particular? What are they scared of? I Uhereis some: thing performative eter, how i ith tear produce al kinds of events, foresteable and unforeseeable, and even including its addressee? Al that, ‘of course, according 1 a propel performative causality tere i such & thing, and which is pure, not dependent on anyother consequentaity ex trinsic to te at of writing admit I'm not very sue what T mean by that the unforeseeable should not be able to form par ofa performative struc ture srcto sens and yet. would stil be necessary to divide, pro. Iierate the instances: not everything is addressee in an addressee, one part only which compromises wih the rest [compote avec le reste. Yourelt for example, yu love me, this love is greaer than yourself and above all eater than myself an yetits only a very smal part tit one thus names, ‘vith this word love, my’ Tove, Tat doesnt stop you from leaving me, day afer day, and indulging in these litle calultions, ee. Tive up (cat) Twillhave tomate en dquiies and clear this ding up: start rom the fact tha, for example, debit >pang/ would, let s aya he ongin of the universe, have produced a noise ‘which one can considera stl nothaving reached us Is slo come and we willbe given the chance to tp ito receive i according to (anyway 1 ‘will explain wo you, dhe main ting i that rom this momest on you draw ‘uta ts consequences, for example from what sad to you so many years ago-—and then you wept 8 Jacques Derrida heard the news, ut T already knew, by telephone. This wasn't the end ofthe transfer and it will continue uni the end of ime, in any case until he end ofthe Cause what did she want 0 give me or takeaway from re inthis way to rum away fom him arin view of him, 1 don’t know at T don't much care Ye m’en fous un pe, what followed confirmed me in this feeling in shor, twas no a sign ofa break ut dhe las writen sign ile ‘and lle afer te break (his i the time [temps, aso ‘tense"] ofall our Correspondence): in shomt a postcard that he sen © Fess on 10 October 1902. The Ansichtskare (picture postcard} represented the Tempio di Net tno at Pacstum: Eien herclicen Gruss vom Hohepunt der Reise, dein Siam: (A wartn greeing fromthe high spot of te trp, Yours Sigm )" The history of this transferenialcorespondence is unbelievable: I'm ot tlk ing about its content, sbout which there has been plenty of gossip, but of the scenarios posal, economic, even financial (bancair], mltary 2s ‘well stategic scenario—to which has given ise and you know that | never separate these things, especially not the post and the bank, an these is always the taining (la didactique) atthe centre Fliesss wite the ‘mali cogs woman’, sells Fred's letters, and he had destroyed her husbands “The purchaser, sels hemo Marie Bonapane (es, she of "Te Purloined Letter and "The Purveyor of Truh:* 100 pounds in 1997, sin English ‘money, although the tansacuon tok place in Pars, As you will see, our tent account [histoire] of Freud also writes isl in English, it happens rossing the Channel [ele se paste @ passer la Manche), and the Channel ‘knows how to keep quiet, During her taining, this time in Vienna, Bon pare speaks ofthe matter fo the master whois frious and who tls her a Jewish sory (une histoire juve, a story about digging up and throwing sway a dead bid a week aftr the bara (he has other bind stories, you know) andres to palm her off wih $0 quid in onder o get back his hls a his leer, without explicitly saying so. A litle raining, then, In ex- Change fo some pieces of my old transference which has made me tlk 80 ‘uch, Thether—T'vegh youshe wasn't such a ool-—tefuses, What goes fonin herhead I don’t Kow, but talk about having ahold tht won’ Tet go ‘tis, says poor old Jones, out of'sclentiicimerest’ that se had the cour age to stand up (tenr rt] [ah! you see why Foften prefer he (French), ‘tansaton} to the maser’), Then i's the Rothschild bank in Vienna, the Wwthdrawal of the letersi the presence ofthe Gestapo (only a princess of fore Jacques Derrida ° Greece and Derenark was capable of tha) thle deposit at Une Danish le gation in Pars (ll inal hanks to von Cok who wasn't just a general Tike anyother), ther crossing the mine-sowm Chanel, “in Waterroo" and ‘buoyant materi as Jones goes onto sa, a8 a precaution (en prévision] against shipwreck. And al hr, doa't forget, against the desir of thems ter all this violence ends up with Ana, fr whom te tes ate coped rd ‘who Slacs from them for publication! And now we ean pick upthe scent of lis of things and give lectures (fare des cows) on tei stories about noses.And the other—one wll never know what he wroe—thore are ors and ic savas ike that theres only ele-analysis, they will have to daw all the con clusions tke us, get their concep ofthe “analytic sitvation' fo swallow a new metrics of ime (ofthe mulipicy of ystems et.) as wel as another reading of the tanstendenat imagination (from the Kantbuch and be yond... uptothe present [jusgu d presen as we ventoreto sayin French) You and me, our tele analysis has lasted for such 3 long in yeas, "the session continues’, ch, aad yer we never see each other the sessions (and the fact Ut we employ the very long session doesn’ ‘change things i the slightest. we punctuate quite different). So, never ‘outside sessions, tha’ our deontology, we'te very sit. It they dit the ime, ll of them, as they ough, would grass grow again in the salons? We would have to come back to masks that sift least, the last postcard was sent 10 less, tseems atthe end ofa journey which should have iaken Fre (im 1) 4 Sel He sem to have given upon the ea, buts from Amal fidiathe goes 1 Paestam, Remember hat he i aveling with his be Alexander, and that ber weap ro posteards he ses hs dauble (not Horch, he says, ‘another double)" He recognizes in his an omen [signe précr cnr] of death: "Does this siglfy Vedere Napolt et po morire” he asks, lays assciated the double, death ant premention. Uma not making With te double. Te fs, 26 August 1902 o Minna, his sstern-aw, He sends ito Roses Hones wets: "The fl Towing day, at half pasttwo in the moming, they ave to change trains Boulogne, in oder o gel the Munich express. Fr finds te time ose smother posteart ‘Meanwhile, forthe easons Ihave told you, am leafing through the Saga rather absent-minded, without seeing very clearly wheter IU get ¥ anything up with regardto the two postcards, before and ater thee » Fecques Derrida anything out oft onthe sie off what? Let us say the England of Freud inthe second hall ofthe last cenury. The Forsyte Saga bess in England in 1886, and ils second pan, which Galswoahy enides A Modern Come dy, comestoanend in 1926, Coincidence? 1926, that's whea Freud shifted ‘vith regard telepathy: comes ound ot and haters fiend Jones, ‘eho. in a ciculr leer declares on this point (Fred's so-called “conver son? fo telepathy), that his, Jones's, ‘predictions have unfortunately been verified’! He had predicted (}) that tis would encourage occulism, Frevd's crea eter in reply, 18 February 1926: ‘Our fiend Jones seems to me tote (oo unhappy sbovt the sensation that my conversion 10 tee pathy has made in English periodicals. He will recollect bow near to such {conversion I came inthe corsmunication Thad te oceasion 1 make dur ing our Har avels, Considerations of extemal policy since that ime hed me back long enough, but finally one must show anes colours and need other about the scangal this time a ite at on eater, perhaps stil more ‘tthe ar ofthe “modem comedy” there's amagificent/For- se farilytoe/ spread out over five pages. But I reread te ForsytvFor- ste-von Voriehiforesight Freund. Freue business (histoire) in the New Iaroductory Lecnues, ead it and reread itn hee languages bat witout results, mean without picking p, behind the obvious, any scent can fl low. There fs between ws, what do you want met say, acase of fortune-tllng Boot! stronger [plus fort} than me. Often Task myself: bow are fortune ling books for example the Oxford one, jus ke forune-elngs, clarvoy ans, mediums, able so form part of what they declare, predict or say they foresee even though, participating inthe thing, they also provoke [prove quent, produce, et herseives a least be provoked tthe provocation of it? Thereisamecting hereof al efor fore, for inseveral languages, tnd forte in Latin an frnina, for, a 90, a8 fortian, 5.0% Then I dozed off and looked forthe words ofthe other dream, the one which T'd started 10 tell you, In a hall-slep I hada vague presentment that i was somedhing {o do with «proper nate (at any rate, there are any ever proper names there), of a common rane in which proper names are entangled, a com ‘mon name which was sel becoming 8 proper name, Untangle a ile te has of my dream and what they are saying as they fallin silence. have us, inked it tat photograph by Erich Salomon which talked 10 yoo Jacques Derrida nu about yosrday, The Clas of Professor W. Khal (almost “ba (hah in German). already along time 1 drowned myself: Remember, Why in my reveries of suicide is italways drowning whichimposes itself, and most oRen in ake Tac, sometimes a pond bur usually a lake? Nothing is strangerto me than lake! oo fa rom the landscapes of my childhood, Maybe i's iterary in Steal? I think i's more the force of the word (lal. Something int over: tums or precipitates (cla alo, plunging down head frst. You will ay that inthese words, in their letters T want to disappear, not necessary inorder to de there bt to live there concealed, peshaps in order to dssimulate what "Tinow, So glas, you se, would have o be tacked down thereabouts (la, ol, els, lacs, le Tacs, le pidge, te facet, le fas, la, da, fort, hu (la, flosed, kes, snare, rap, gin he sil, there, yes, song um.) Had 1 spoken f0 you about “Claude"? You wil remind me, ! must tll yeu who this name i forme, You will note tha tis androgynous, ike "pose post missed it ia Glas bu thas never been fet away, irhas not missed me, The Catastrophe i of this name ‘Suppose I publish this Teter, withlrawing fom i foe cineraton, everthing which, here and there, would allow one to identify its destination, Of couse if the determined destination —determination— belongs to the play of the performative thiemight conceal acids sim Jnerum: under the apparent indeterminacy, having taken account ofa thou sand coded features, die figure of some addressee tkes shape quite Aistinctly,togeter with the greatest probability thatthe response thus in Auced fasked fr) came from one particular direction and not anor. The place ofthe response would have been fixed by my grids—e grids of cul> ture of language, of society, of Tatas, whatever you like, Not just any od stranger receives just any old ‘message’, even by chance, and above all doesn't reply wo iL And not to reply is not wo receive If, fom you for example, [roeive a reply to this let, itis because, consciously orn, as you Wish, 'U have asked foe this ater than that, and therefore fom sch ‘nd such person (de tel ow elle). As tis seems a fist, n the absence of the teal’ addressee, to happen becwwen myself and myself, within myself [a pare moi. except for mysel"} apart of myself which will ave an ‘nounced the other io self [gt se sera fate part de Faure) 1 wil cea: Jyhave wo have asked myself... What sit tha ask mall, and who? You for example but how, my lve, could you be only an example? You know 5, yourself tell meth rath, Youthe ee [la voyante), you te sontsayer 2 Jacques Derrida {Ua devine), What do you want me t sa, 1 arm ready to hear everything from you, now Iam ready tel me Tt vemains unthinkable, this unigue encounter with the unique, beyond al calculation of probability, as much programmed as itis unforeseeable. Notice tu his word ‘calculation’ [calcul is imeres ting in itself lisen tot carefully, it comes jut where the calculation fails Dethaps.to have eallus (du cal) in one's heat," writes Flaubert. cs to [Louse fom dei very fist les (ah those two!) he is afr hat she is sai, and tere was good reason, on bot sides: “Oh! don’t he afraid: he {sno less good for having calls in bls ear... Read all. And the next ay, after reeling: Ttold you, I believe, tha twas your voice especially that loved, without telephone dis time he writes Take [ac] of my hear 'You have come with your fingertips to sirup all that [cea]. The old seh ‘ment has come back to bling point, the lke of my heart has rile it, Bur he tempest is made fr the Ocean!-—Ponds (éangs], when you tur them gve off nothing but unwholesome smells—I must love you to be able to say that" The next day, famong oder thingy; “itis now ten O'clock, Ihave just received you lester and set mine the one I wrote last hight-—Only just up, Tam waiting o you without kno wig what Lam going to say.’ Does hat remind youof anything? Ii there that the correspond fence communicates withthe book about nating’ (etre sur rien. And the message ofthe non-message (here's always some) consists in that. To say that ‘OK?—OK’ ("Ga wa!=Ga va doesn't carry any message is only {nue from the point of view of the apparent conten of the wtteranees and ‘one mist acknowledge that Tam no expecting information in respons 0 ‘my question. But that doesn't stop the exchange of'¢a-va'sremainingelo ‘quent end sigitiant. From cai to Jac is enough to make one believe that that fellow also had limp [ea claudication), BY the way, Ihave come across claw dius in Gla, next to glavdius (7.6). How would this fortune telling book) have reached me, reached you whom I oot yer know, adits rue, ou ko0 it you with whom am gevenbeless going olive from now on? ‘Something shoots {arel! Something tts the target! Is it me who hits the target or the target ‘which shoots me, tats my question, Ladares ito you, my ange: Thave tentraced [tre] this formula from a Zr ext onthe chivalrous ar of arch- fry lira are], And when oe aks the rabbi of Kouk why the ime wen Jacques Derrida 1B the Torah was given ows is called Shavuot ad not the ime when we 16 ceived ithe gives the following reply: the gif tok place one day, the day ‘ve commemorate; but ican be recived tal times, The gift was given ‘equally 6 everyone, hur nt al have received it Tis isan Hassiic story fon Buber. This s ot the Torah, of no, but becween my Leer and Ne Torah, the difference requires both inorder to be ought. 10.4uly 1979 ‘when you asked me the other day: what changesinyourlife? Well youhave ‘ove it hundzed ines recent is the opposite of what was nu pating (prévoyds, as one might have expected [sy andre) a surface ‘ore and more open to all the phenomena formerly rejected (in he name ‘ofa cemtn discourse of science), the penomena of "magie’ of “laiwoy ance’, of fate’, of communications ala distance, ofthe things Said #0 be ‘oceul. Remember [Rappell-toi ‘md we, we would not have moved a sep forward in this treatment ofthe dispatch [nro (adestinaton, destnerrance, clandes ination) if among all dese tlesthings we didnot get in touch with Tele [uthy in person. Or rari we did't allow ouselvestobe touched by hes Yes, touch, I sometimes think that thought before “seeing” or hearing’ touch, put your paws on it or that seeing and hearing come back to touch at ds iance™a very old thought, but it takes some archaic gto the archai. So, touch wih both ends at once, ouch in te area where science 2 0 calle technical objectivity are now taking hold oft instead of esiting it ‘8 they used to Gok atthe successful experiments the Russians and Amer fans are doing with their astronauts), touch in te area of our immediate apprehensions, ar pathies, our receptions our apprebensons because we are letting ourselves be approached without taking or comprehending any thing and because we ate afraid (don't be afraid’, "don't wory about 8 thing's sll righ, OK), for example: our last “halucinations,thetcle- phone call wid crossed lines all the predictions, so true, sofas, of the Polish musician woman... The wth, what Falways have dificult geting sod to: that non eepathy fs possible, Alwvays dificult imagine that one ‘anthink something to oneself apart sol deep down inside, without heing suprised bythe other, without the other being immediately informed, as 4 Jacques Derrida ‘asl a oft ha agian Seren int, athe ine of the aks, with remote contol (dcomenande] for changing channels and idling with the col ‘ur. e speech dubbed with large lees in order io avoid any misunder standing. Fr foreigners ad deaf-mutes. This pele belief on my par, of § pain me [ ne part en mo) can only refer wo his ground—-OK, the unconscious, 1 you lke—trom which there arose objocivistcerainy, is (provisional system of science, the discourse Linked toa state of science ‘which has made us keep telepathy at ay (gud nous a fair tenir en respect J telpaene), Difcult wo imagine a Unory of what hey sl cll he un conscious without a theory ofelepathy. Tey can be neither confused nor Associated Uni ecentyTimagined through gnorance and forpefuless, hat "telepathic anxiety was contained in small pockes oF Freud shor, whac he Says sbout i i two oF the articles regard as minor! This is not unt but lam now beter able to perceive, afer investigation, how ‘numerous these pockets ae. And there's alot goingonn them, grt del, dove the legs. (Wait here Tnterrupe a moment on dhe subject of his “le [cy and of everthing I old you abou the step as) the way (oi), ‘ability, our vitcum, the car and Weglichet, et, in order 1 copy this for you, Veame upon evening: we have being and move rent, because we are travellers, And itis hanks tothe way, thal the evel Ter receives the being andthe name of trveller. Consequently, when & traveller tums ino or sets outalong an infinite way and one asks him where he is, he replies that he Ison he Way; and if one asks hin where he has come fom, he replies tate has come from the way’ and fone asks him ‘nhere he's going he replies hat he is going fam the way tothe way But be cael aout this oh yes, because oe could easily be careless, the temptation is great, an es mine st eansists not bei earful, taking care of nothing, being careful of nothing (prendre garde, garde de rem sarde rien), especially not the ta, which isthe guarding isel, a its rune suggests) ths way which gat the same time if, is also rah "Guess [devine], you the soothsayer [dene] who wre thal, which i either the £9 (put and discourse) nor Manin’s Weg!" guess what | have missed ot Icisealea Whereis te King ofthe Fews? Despite te tautologca visbllity of the thing, thee are #fdesss,apostophes, questions and answers and they put themselves on teir guard). So the pockets are mumerous, and swell, nt only’ he corpus Bu also in the "Movement the life of the "Cause" dere was no enw the debate on telepathy and de tans mission of thought, rather one should say thought wansference’'[eangert Jacques Derrida 15 de pensée| (Gedantenaberrragung), Freud himse wished to distinguish (laboriously) between the two, Hrnly telcving in this "wowght tne ference’ and fora longtime pussyfooting(prariguays longtemps a vals hesitation, lit, Toralong ime practising thebestaton- wall around tee chy” which would signify a waming [avertistement) as regards an extemal’ (7? [si] event. An intenminable dete between him and him self, him and the others, the ether sx in the band (eagues: “beringd There was the Jones clan, stubbomly “rationaist', Jones making himself even more nirow-minded thane already was because of the situation and ‘eologicat tradition of his countey where the “obscurans danger was Stronger and then the clan of Ferencel who rshes int it even Taste han the old man—to say noting of Jung, obviouly, He nad rwo wings, of cours, two clans and two wings. Ifyou have the time, this vacation, reread ‘he “Occulism’ chapter atthe end of he Jones i ull of ings, but ke allowance for this otter Emest [fais apart de cet autre Ernest} t00 hea sly implicated 1 be serious, be trembles. You se, one cannot skirt around [Bnglan in oor story. From the fortune telling boot in Sp High up te Forsyte Saga and Here von Yori, passing through the Jones's an! the Eness (he litle one, uo must be neariy 70 years ol, continaes to ply with the bobbin in Lona where he isa psyebioaalyst under the name of Freud-—Frnst W. Freud, ot William, Wolfgang, but Freud and na Haber stad, tbe name of the Faber or of the somvinlay, poor son-in-law). OF course, tore were lhe risks of obscura, and these far from hay ing disappeared, butone can imagine tat between thei Gough ofthe “us enscious and the scientific experimentation of eters who verify psychic transference fom aditance, ameeting-point is notexcladed however dis tant it maybe, Besides, Freud says it, among other places, ght athe tar of Psychoanalysis and Telepathy’ the progress ofthe sciences (discovery bof rium, theories of relativity can ave his doubleeffect torender ink able what earlier sience pushed back ino the darkness of occulism, But ‘Smultaneously to velesse new ebscurantist possibilities. Some draw auth rity ftom sciences which they do ot understand as an excuse for anaes- thetzing into credulity for drawing hypnotic eects from knowledge. What you wil never know, what Ihave hidden from you and wilt hide from you, barring collapse ard madness, unl my deat, you already know i, instal ant almost before me. ow tar you know i. You donot want to knw i be- ‘ause you knw and You know how nat io want to know i, now to Want 6 Jacques Derrida ‘otto know it, For my pan, all hat you concea), and because of which hate you and get tamed on [font outs] mow it, Lask you 0 look after ieinthe very depths of yourself like the reserves of a volcano, I ask of my” self, 8 of you, a buring joustance which would halt atthe erupion and atte catastrophe of avowal. I would be simply too much. But se, that's the consciousnes Ihave fit, se the contours ofthe aby; and rom the bottom, which I donot se, of my ‘unconscious’ (lee ike laughing every time I waite tis word, specially with a possessive mak) [receive vein Tormaion. Must go via the stars (au paser parle ase) for the bottom ofthe volcano, communication by satelite, and disaster (désatre), with uti forall that reaching its destination, For here is my final paradox, ‘which you alone will understand clearly: itis because there would be tele pathy that a postcard can nat arrive ais destination. The ulate naivety Would be o allow onsesef to think tat Telepathy guerantes 2 destination Which ‘posts and felecammuniatons fail to provice. On the comary, everything I sid abou the poscartstracture (la seruture eartepostae] ofthe mark dnterference, parasing,divstty, iterability, and soon} 5. found inthe network, This goes for any tele system—whateveritscontet, form or medium. Between 10 and 12 July (probably) ‘My sweet darting gi fo organize with EN qur meeting on Saturday and wo smuggle through this audacious missive as contraband, But it Seems to me i- possible to postpone the sending [iférer envoil at my leer and yet I couldn't bring myself o take advantage ofthe few moments when Eli lefts ao together It would have seemed tome fo bea violation of hospitality am I going tor ‘ceive the leer you [vous] told me about? You ae going away—and itis ‘essential that we correspond, How to proceed in such a way that po one knows anything about i TThave drawn up a ite plan Just incase a man's handwrit- ing Lune écrture masculine) would lock strange in ber uncle's house, Mar tha (there, you know what smuggler wrote tis leer, on 15 June 1882] right perhaps trace her awn address on to a certain numberof envelopes Jacques Derrida " ‘with ner gene hand, after which I wil il up these miserable sels with, some miserable confers I cannot do without Martha's replies... End of (quotation. Two days later she offers him a ring which has come from Her {her's finger. Her mother had given ito her bu it was oobi fore (she thant lost ike I id widh my’ father's, ona day that was $0 of ): Freud wore itu hud a copy made of it while teling her thatthe copy was fo be the ong ina. the wise, Andere isthe fis archive of his telepathic sensibly, & "ing story ofthe type so fequentin te Psychoanalysis and Telepathy ma {eral the woman wh removes her weddng-ing and goesto see acenain Wabrsager(forune-ttler] who, according to Feud, didnot fil to notice de Spur des Ringes am Finger [te mark let by the ring on the fing Ds Thave to ask you some serous trapic questions. Tellme, inal honest. whether ast, “Thursday at eleven o'clock you loved me less or Thad annoyed you more than al, or else perhaps even wether you were "unfithul™ © me, 10 tse the poet's word [Eichendoel The Lite Broken Ring. But why this formal enteaty andi ba taste? Because wehave a g00d opporunity ere to pat am end oa ersin superstition. At the memens of which Thave jos, spoken, my ring cracked, a the point where the pel eset. Trust adit, ‘iy heart didnot remble ait, No presemiment whispers tome ture ‘zagements going ta be broken off and no dark suspicion makes me tik fat you were a that exact moment in he process of diving my image ou ‘of your hese. An impressionable young man would have felt all tht, but, 1.1 only one idea: to have te ng repaired and 1 vas also thinking hat sccidets of tha sort are seldom avoidable... Site avoidable that ice be beaks this ring and twice in the course of onl operation, a the mo ‘ent when dhe surgeon was plunging his scalpel into the fances oat, ‘The second time, the peal could not Be found, In hs eterto Mana, you bave the entre program, the entire contradiction to come aleady eahered the bul.” He to hears voice, that of Marta when ie sin Paris (he end ofthe Psychopath! apd ‘each time got the reply datas ng had happened just ty to find out i that reassures or iseppois| him Asis customary forme todo, have collected al the fedshes, the noes, the Bis fof paper: the tickets forthe Ringtheater in Viena (he night ofthe great fire), then each visiting card with a moto in Latin, Spaish, English, Gr 8 Jacques Derrida rman, Tove odo, the cards marking he place ofthe loved one [ ale) table Uses Ui vk eaves ot te wah die Kalen, 30 well tel Between 10 and 12 July (probably) Sil in diverting te address from the words [adresse 2 détourner des mots adresse], AB! my sweet angel, how grate am to you for my sl [mon adresse" Teave you discover the context al for yourself, in The Spleen of Paris Le alan rev’) and in Puséer ov. 12 July 1979 forhis eertes on elepathy-—what I'd like to al fake lectures because b onfies in them so much, poor mars —were for us as imaginary or fc as Professor W, Khal's clas. Not ony ide have al tis difficulty reac ing adocision {ve prononcer,“eachingaverdit Jon telepathy, but he never ‘made any pronouncement [in a jamais rien prononcé)enihis subject. Nor ‘wrote anything, He wrote with a view to speaking, preparing himself 0 Speak, and he never spoke. The lecures which he composed on this s ject were never delivered but remained a writings. I this insignifican? 1 don’t think so and would be tempted to lnk it up in some way wih his, fact: the material which he uses inthis domain, especially in ‘Dreams and ‘Telepainy’, is almost always writen eral or even soley epistolary Qe ters, postcards, telegrams, visiting cards). The fake Ieeure of 1921, "Psy cho-Analysis and Telepahy", supposedly writen for a meeting of te TIerational Assocation, which dd not take place, be never gave, nd it seems that Jones, with Eiingon dissuaded him ffom presenting ia he following congress. This text wis only published after his death and is rmanusrip included a post-serpt relating the case of Dr Forsyth a he Forsyte Suga, orgste ine fest version ou of esistance’ (1 quote) The fake leture of 1922, “Dreams and Telepathy’, Was never give, a8 i Ws supposed ote, tothe Society af Vienna only published Imago, The thd fake lecture, ‘Dreams and Occultsm' (30th lecture the secend ofthe New Iraraductory Lecaves, was ofcourse never given ad Freud explains hi self en this inthe foreword to the New Imraductory Lectures. tis his Jas text that you wl find the Vorsichr Saga with which I woul ike tore Jacques Derrida 9 onstitte a chain, my own, the one Yd told you on the telephone de day that you pu your and om the prone n order call me ame same omen that my own eal tated to ing trough he says that he has changed his views on ‘howghetransterence. The slense considered (by others) mechanistic’ will beable one day ta give an account ot, The connection between to psy thie gts, the immediate warning Which one individual cn seem to give nother, the signal orpsyehe transfer can be a physical phenomenon. This, isthe end of ‘Dreams and Occultism’. He has just aid tat hes ineapable (of trying to please (come off, you've got to be joking, hike me ) he telepathic ro ess would be physical in itself, exoept sits two extremes; one extreme is Feconverted (sok wieder unser) imo the same psychic [le méme psy ‘higne atthe otter exteme. From that moment onthe ‘analogy’ wihother ‘ranepositions', other ‘conversions’ (Umsetzungen), would be ingispur ble: for example the analogy with ‘speaking and listening on the tle- ‘hone’. Between thetic and the psycho-physical relation, within each one fra from one tote othe, there is only tasation(aberserung), metaphor (dertragung), “transfer, “transpositions, analogical conversions, and shove ll transfers of transfer: aber, mea, ele: hese words transcribe the Same formal order, the same chain and as our discourse on this passage [passage staking place se pastel n Lai, ad rans to your lists wel, Today we give greter importance tothe elecsic or magnetic medium [sup ‘por order to think this process, this process of thought, And the tele- ‘te tene i nota parudigm or matenaised example of anotha thing. 4s that compare car mystic wetng-pad, its an analogous problematic, it all communtstes by telephone [ou cela se téléphone). But once again, tecrfyng telephone (end he, the old man, is frighened, me wo; withthe tclepath transfer one could not be sore of being able 0 cut (no need now to say hold on, don cuits conaected day and night, can't you just pe tures?) orto isolate the ines, All lve would be accumulated {captalsé| tnd dispatched by central commpater like the Plto terminal produced by (Control Data: one day I spoke to you shout ihe C.L1, Honeywell Bull sof- ‘ware calle Socrates, wel I've jst iscovered Plato (I'm not making any- thing up, i's in America, Pato.) So hes frightened, and rightly so, of what ‘would heppen fone could make oneself master and possessor (habhaf of this physical equivalent ofthe psychic ac, nother words (but his is wht ‘shappening a psychoanalysis is not simply uninvolved [hors du coup]. 2» Jacques Derrida espesaly not in its indestucible (inerevabe) hypnotic tation) if one had at one's disposal ark tlepachik® ‘but my love, this is 10 lose one’s head, no ‘more no les, And don’ tell me that you do not understand or that you do ‘ot remember, I'd made it known to You right fom the fist day, chen re peated it ateach expiry dite [échéancel. Plat i stil the dream ofthe ead Ieee} accumulating capstan’ and puararieeing exchanges (a soar plus teachovare (didactic), one now says, te anly thing missing sa Gialecticware) But then one would ave to Kiss Plato himsell goodbye i Fanart fire son deul de Plato luimiéme, do one’s mowing fo Pato imselt] (hati what we have been doing all the ime we have love each ‘ther and you tolime about thistentying parscide, you camesince killed ‘im within myself, in onderto finish him ff, and there's ao end tot and forgive you, but he within me finds tfc.) In such cases ss these \Wsonly the first sep which counts [Dans des as pels, ce n'est que le premier pas qui code’) he sayin French tthe end of Py and Tele And he conclues: ‘Das Weitere findet sch ("The est sot itse'f eu’). No, for us iteounts at every step Reread this final paragraph. Having had the cheek to say that his le has been very poor in erms of oecult experiences, he ades: but what a sep beyond it Would be I... (uel folpenschwerer Sehr her..). So bo envisages the outcome tod adds the story of the ‘guardian ofthe Saint-Denis basilica. Sunt-Denis had walked with his head Under his arm ater his beheading, He fad walked for quite along ime ei sanzes Stet). And you know what he had done with his bead, putt Under his arm? He had ifteditup (rlenée] aafgehoben), Tellme, you vill listme up, eh, you wil alk with my head under your am? T would ike that, No, In such cases as these," coneludes the Kuss, ‘nly the Ts step coun." In the Gesamneite Werke, the text that follows, he dle of whlch you read immediately afer the “ist stp’, is Das Medacenhaupt Tagine that 1a ‘walking like him, to hs ythm: between fy and sist years old out Jy until 1920) remain undecided, I send them to sleep, allowing them to ink what they want: glepathy, you won't know (your saures pas] an 1 tell you tat I dont know myself whether Ielieve int. You se the doves jnmy hands and coming out of my ha, how do I do it, mystery So every- thing in my life (Sorry, in our ie) organizes or disorgaizes self accord ing to this indecision’ One les Plato or his ghost ive without krowing ‘whether it is him ors ghost. Then comes the last sage, the one which is Jacques Derrida a sil before us but which Ise seeing us coming (e vois nous voir ven] And which, sofwarly [fogiclellement), wil have auicipated us (prévenus] ‘ght fom the stat. In this way life totally transformed, convened, par- lysed By telepathy would await us, given over tits networks and is Schemes across the whole surface of is body, inal is angle, tangled wp ‘embobinée} in the web of histories aa times without the leas resistance ‘nour part, On the caneary we would take on 3 zealous participation the ‘mort provocative experimena natives, People would no longer have us round, they would avoid us asf we were addols, we would fghtenevery- body (50 fort 50 da), For the moment I sere mpse there 18 one win fie who has begun and who plays at frightening me. You vill rain with, ‘me, won't you, you wil til tell me the rah 13 July 1979 {am only interested inthe saga first on the moter’ side (Safa the mame ofthe"lip' and of my mother, as told you in October) at leas far back. as the gret-grndfather who today hss more than 600 descendants. Then hypnosis and often tld you ast year “its 38 f 1 were writing under hyp nosis’ or were making one read under hypnosis’. Akhough don't believe in wakefulness (la veil), {must prepare forthe great awakening, just in frder to change sides, in shor. Ike tuming over ina bed and so my first pesiod, that, of indecision. In the fake lecture ented “Dreams and Telepahy”, my sherri is priceless fimpayable), really incredible, Incredible, that’s the ‘word, for I play on credibility or ther acredibility as 1 did asbor While before in Beyond... do everthing I ea so that this audience (hat Ive ‘Se things up s0 a8 nto have finaly, to allow myself tobe spre away by poor old Jones with his political scenism advice) cannot either believe ‘oF not believe in any ease come to [arte] its judgment That will make ‘hem work and transfer ring his period, because elie and judgmen halt larréter| work arden, a secondary benef they will doze off and remain suspended on my lip [eve], Must now and there Tam strong because {in tis domi 8 no longer a question of "knowledge" (savoir. Every ‘hing, in our concep of knowledge, constructed so that telepathy be i possible, unthinkable, unknown, x Jacques Derrida {eres any, ov eatlon [rappor Telpay mest not be fe a eige'or 'non-knowledge' but of another tye) will there- fore do everthing so that you cannot believe or nt beteve that myselt believe or do not believe: but te point is hat you wil never know if am doing it intentionally. The question of the intentional [Pexprs} will lose all meaning for you wil be aSounding Wo you: in its ruse and mavety (das me all right, isnt i), bath equally probable and improbable, disinct and con fused, as with an old monkey, Inthe frst place I pretend to disappoint fc: re liseners and aleary eades: a there is loc of inerest inte cult today, and because I've pa Telepathy on the tll here you are, al excited shout. You have always taken me, ike Fess, fora ‘mind reader". Co temp [Méprs) You ae waiting holding your oreath. You are wang on The ekephone, Imagine you [vous] and speak 0 you Le te parle onthe telepone, o he eleprinter seeing tha '¥e prepared leer whieh will, never give [prononcer| (Ikea letter which ne doesn't sendin e's ie time, which {allow tobe itereepted by Jones and the fiends ofthe Cause, ‘Tmay as well say by my Hievenans). Well, you are wrong, fo once, you will discover nothing fom me as regards the “enigma of telepathy" 1n pa UiulayI wil preserve thisatallcoss, you wil ote acto know "whether ‘or no believe in the exisence of telepathy. This opening could sti allow one to think hat I know, myself, whether or nt I believe, and tat, {or one reason or another, lam anxious fo Keep it secre, in particular © reduce Such and such a transferetial effect (not necessarily on yo [i ‘ron you [vous], but on this public within myself which does nt fet go of ‘me). And again, at he endo the fake lecture, ul once more, | pretend (more oF less as my Father used Yo say) 0 ait that do not myself know. I know nothing about it ¥ apologize: i have [lventhe impression of having srt “taken sde*(‘ri pare] with the realty of telepathy nthe occult sense, Lam sorry that i's 0 dificult © ‘void giving such an impression, Tell me, who do you think I'm talking (0? ‘What dof take them fr? IF dont want give the impression, thave only to dowhatig necessary don't you think? For example no play with Get man, In saying that I woul ike tobe emia ‘uepareisc Ido not fmpariaY' in the sense of scientific objectivity, but rater without bi [sans part, "without pany’, "without option’. Thas how f want appear. otto take sides (Pare? nekmen} and to remain "without bias And Twill, have concluded asin Beyond... without concluding, by recalling all the Jacques Derrida 2 ‘easons Ihave for remaining without bas. It realy i the first step which ‘counts There you are sleep, propped up [ealee im your armchair Ive no opinion, you understand, "no judgment This is my last word. AC my ‘ge, donot know anything on tis subject’. From the fs sentence othe [ast fom the moment that said, ‘you wil know nothing about, whether Telieve itor nt upto the moment of concluding, ‘anyway Tdonotknow anything aboot it yell, you would think tht therefore nothing is hap- pening, thar there's no progress here, But you don’t tink that T might be Uissmlating atthe sar? And again at the end when Tsay’ that {do not ‘know anything about? Through diplomacy and concer for foreign pol icy"? You don thave o tke my word foritI'slike you when Task you in the evening fell me, te truth, my tle comms (dismo,a verté, ma pe- tite vrgul), Da you believe that oe can tak about lying in philosophy, or in erature, or beter, n the sciences? Imagine the scene: Hegel fying When he sas in the greater Logc..or Joye, in some passage from FW, lor Cator? but Yes Lai, Bat ye, andthe more one can pay at at, tht tore it interests me. Basically, that's it scourses in which fying is im possible have never interested me. The great las are mperurable, th never mention i. Nietzsche, for example, who unas them all, hee have boon much of iar be cant really have known how, poor chap. So,n01a step further [pas wx par de plus), apparendy inthe course of 25 closely-writen pages, The delimitationof the problem, the strctraling garde-fowrigowre ts} (but han what am I Trghtened of? who is making me feghtened?)— ‘he relation between telepathy and dreaming, and “our theory ofthe dear. [Above all don’t speak of anything else, i's that, our theory ofthe dream, Which must be protected at any price. And in order to save a dream, one nly, single dream -generatorn any case, to save it against anyother the- fry, What a strategy. don't you admire i? I neutralize al the risks in a ‘ance, Even if the existence of tlepaty (about which T know nodhing and about which you wil know nothing especially not whether T believe int and whether want to know anything about i), were atested with al it {uirements, event were assure, sichergestells, there would be po need ‘ochatige anything in my theory ofthe dream and my dream would be safe Tem not saying whether [believe ini or not but {eave the fel open 1 every eventuality jst abou, f appropriate it in advance as it were. My theory ofthe dream, outs (the fis, ce second, it mater litle) would be shle to dpe to it and even sl contra it. And the two seenes of "Dreams 24 Jacques Derrida and Telepathy’aretoocbvioustobe pointedout.onemoretime.Pirstscene even while enying ime défendon) tats the word, tha 1 know ansthing orthat am concludinganything,Ispeakcnly of mysel, say Tocally auto- biographical if not aut-anaytical, ext, and which devotes iself 1 con stant speculation. Second scene: my fae lecture allowing itself you hike, to be Ie from star to finish and tbe driven by a sce, Spur, ofa facial ‘ound which [have from my childhood and which, don't yu think, opens the text, olds topen,open-mouthed, te analytic material come rom ese ‘where, inmy dossier oa telepathy, remains epistolary though and throug 13 July 1979 ‘What will Ihave tld them’! chat my materials lightveight, dat his time T am sorry not tobe able to put personal dream on display asin my Traun- dleutung, tat {have never hada single telepathic dream, You think they’ believe me? There will surely be at last one (une) who'll havea peemoni tion (withthe exception of you, ofcourse, sootsayer [devine], you know everything nadvance) tat itisless simple ad ha, atthe moment ofdem- ‘onstration, the dreams which [recount to bring out their ultimately non telepathic nature, my dreams, then, could well be the most interesting thing tn the main subject, th real cert la vrae confidence]. When Tsay "But Thave never had atelepahc dream’, thre wil beat east one Lue] Whol ask: what does he know about it? and why should T believe hin? She's the ane Iie to wake up with one day und start everything afresh, Moreover have clearly recognized, from the beginning, that Pu kept from ceria dreams the impression that certain definite evens, in besinmtesBrelgn 1s, was playing itself oat in the distance, at such-ad-such a place, atthe Ssamemomeat oTaer. Ad this indoterminacy allows enough play for them tostamtasking temssves slightly more edmplicated questions; those which 1 suggest to them in their sleep are never valid in demselves calmly, now it, calm ly, another time, one more time. I is necessary 1 see “double, over to- wands the dead broters Geant brothers [beau fries, cf. Beau free, “rather ina"), towards homosexualies more of less foreclosed, with the telepathy-calls (so much for changing the number every year, pay for ‘tte fulisted) the majority of which come to me from great-great ar- dre-arrire| ad grand grads, ec. (fathers, uncles, aunts, my grander Jacques Derrida 6 able on cccasions tobe my great-uncle und so weiter). Cally, what do you ‘want me 1 say, you've goto agree to wake Up ‘hen Teave the domain ofthe dream ‘wich [had nevertheless undertaken no o go beyond Tx0 out oft fora Tile bit certainly, tut already to speak about mysel: even wide-awake 1 have often vers, sensed experienced the presentment of distant evens, Butthese Anzeigen, Vorhersgen, Ahnungen, hese premonior signs and ‘iscourses are not themssives, wie wir uns ausdrcken, cingetoffen. In French one would say that they are ot themselves, a5 we pu it, elie Iréalisés]. fOr kn english that they have not come ire. whieh would be something else again, literal, because ¥ hold (tens) hat something can dure ous avérer, canbe verified without being realized (se verifier sans se réaliser|, Now te fat that Lemphsze wie Wi uns ausdrucken clon rich eingetoffen clearly shows that something bsbers me about his ex pression which I nevertheless do no highlight reever many ater way. 1 {would hesitate form par, to translate iby "Tealized” [réalisé]. inet fen does mean, in the broad sere, Tobe realized [se rélier bu! would prefer to translate itby to happen ‘arcive'] tobe acoomplised (sac onli} et, without erring to reality especially (but not only) ott realty wich we ap easily assimilate to extemal-seaity. You se what I'm» {geting where, Am snmunciation canbe accomplished, something can hap pen without forall that being realized. Anevent can ake place whichis not ‘eal, My eotomary distinction betwen intemal an external reality spe hs not suficent here. It signals towards some event {de févénement than idea of reality” helps think, But then, you wil say. whut ia ounced (Pantoncé) in the annunciation clearly bears the index ‘extemal realy’ what i one to do wih i? Well, teat ia an index, itcan sii, one, telesignal nother event which arrives before the oer, without ‘according to another time, another space, ete. This isthe abe of my psychoanalysis, Reality, hen Talk about tis as fw send them 10 Sleep. you will understand nothing of my thetoris otserwise. Ihave never been able to give up hyposs, Ihave merely transfered one inductive retin onto another one could say hat have become a ier and in writ, ing metric, the production [mise en scene] apd composion of text, 1 have invested all my byprngogic powers an desires. What do you Want ‘me to say, sleep with me, has all that interests them, dhe res Is se ‘ondary, So the telepathic annuncaton has come true even iff ts not i self eingetrofTen in extemal reality tbat i he hypobesis wl 6 ooques Derrida be read at the very moment I foreclose it onthe surface of my tet Hypnosis tte you who has made me understnd i, hypaoss is you, lowly Lake up from You, Ising the circulation back io my ibs, Itt remember everything $ou'made me do and ray under hypmasis and Til pot manage, wil De “nthe verge of managing oly when Ise dea coming. Ard you wil stil be there wo wake me, While Iwai, deviate, Tuse the power that you end mme—overthe ahem —forclosed”is superb word, but only where itis vali just for re, my lip sre, my idiom. Ieis a proper name ‘Of this heskation between steep and swakefuinss, fre precisely benween the dream prop, he nocturnal ene, tnd he presentment of waking Ie, look under a microscope ath ing of my very list sentences, In three propositions {am saying 1) nave never hid tlepate dream, excep for those dreams which inform lof determinate event playing itself out ata distance and which leave ito ‘he dreamer o decide i ts taking place now or ater. To eave wo decide, ‘hats the great leer, 0 place he fee listener, in shor the readerin ‘he sitaton of the dreamer where i’ up thm to decide—whether be fs asleep. 2)Thatin the waking state Thave also had presetiments which, not coming to be ‘realized in extemal reality, had wo be considered as just sbjctive anticpatons. Now then 3) Ista new paragraph and say "for example" in onterto recount a tary of which one doesn't know whether i ilutaes the last popostion (pemonitons in waking fe) or he lst but ‘one (Lelepuic dreams), The content Seems wo eave no doubts a ques ‘ion of noctumal dreams, but the tctor of linking trembles ale, iste Ing 9 me you think you are drearing ti solong since wrote that you, Inolonger now my two apparently telepathic dreams, which sem nt ta have been relied ‘netwodream of death. {offerthem as hore eaves, supposedly ‘onstrate negatively tat [have never had a elepatie dream andto insist on the poverty of my matersh Furr on Tadd tht in 27 years oF analytic practice (you hear, tis is cerainly our number today) t have never ben in ' poston to witness or takepart in, mitrleben a dream which sul, pre cstely, "corey" epithe, and I eave them to rusinate onthe “ice “That sid he Hor-d oeuvre, my two dreams of death you have quickly understood, bears the essential points of my fake lectre. The material Jacques Derrita 27 ‘which folios and which reaches me by correspondence, i's sufficient be vaswcly alert or sophisticated to understand iit oly there ondor 19 ready two dreams of death or. if you prefer so-thal-na [pour gue-ne ‘pail, in order not 0 read i, in order, onthe one hand, to diver atention Trom them, while onde cer paying atentiono them slne, From the m0 ‘ent started talking about hypnosis and telepathy (at he same time), & Tong time ago now, [always drew attention tothe procedures of diverting tterton, jst ike dium” do. In is way they provoke ex thought divination or betrayal oF thought (Gedanken erate, ‘verraten), Here, my two deans of death one reads them without fd above al through die rest of the material which has come by corre: spondence, appareniy unconnected [sans rapper) with my own dreams, ‘The mate: lof de others, which comes tome by post, woul, itsems, come ony 10

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