“Remembrance of the Future”: Derrida on Mourning

Abstract

Abstract In MEMOIRES for Paul de Man Derrida articulates a new model of mourning as an ongoing conversation with the dead who are both within us and beyond us and continue to look at us with a look that is a call to responsibility and transformation. Derridean mourning significantly revises classic psychoanalytic accounts of mourning, reworking and combining conceptual apparatus from psychoanalysis, philosophy and literature: incorporation (Abraham and Torok), gedachtnis (Hegel), rhetoricity and aporia (de Man). Keywords: mourningpsychoanalysisincorporationgedachtnisDerridade ManFreudAbraham and Torok