Derrida: A Biography

The Walls of Louis-le-Grand 1949–1952 57 from the same collaborationist milieu) was about to set up. Derrida had no intention of ...

58 Jackie 1930–1962 as each time that he was overwhelmed with melancholy, it was to Michel Monory that he turned: If only you kn ...

4 The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 Arriving at the École Normale Supérieure in October 1952 was a real liberation after al ...

60 Jackie 1930–1962 middle of the square courtyard there is a pond with a fountain, and goldfi sh called ‘Ernests’ (from ENS): ‘ ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 61 restaurants, especially the handful of cafés patronized by the stu- dents of the École ...

62 Jackie 1930–1962 miss it. If you’re breaking it off today, it was probably bound to happen. There were many things drawing us ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 63 days, they were considered as ‘decent guys’, in other words consider- ably less than ‘ ...

64 Jackie 1930–1962 On his very fi rst day, he was given an appointment to see Louis Althusser, who was in charge of students he ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 65 for Jackie’s fi rst encounter with Marguerite, Michel’s elder sister – an encounter th ...

66 Jackie 1930–1962 something inside me. I’d need to tell myself – as well as you –, I’d need to ‘recite’ the things that have h ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 67 specialize in the history of modern China and started to learn Chinese. (‘T’chi t’cheu ...

68 Jackie 1930–1962 proportion of his diplôme study from this work. He seems not to have taken a liking to the Belgians he met. ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 69 Patronnier de Gandillac – sometimes nicknamed ‘Glandouiller de Patronage’ (‘Layabout S ...

70 Jackie 1930–1962 felt he was closing in on himself, becoming harsh and selfi sh. In April 1954, succumbing to a new attack of ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 71 Derrida later acknowledged that it was Bianco to whom he owed everything he had manage ...

72 Jackie 1930–1962 meanings. But the unconscious is not just a confusion or an opacity. It is mainly a mixture.^30 The mark Alt ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 73 much anyone, but by him in particular, often to the point of para- lysis. In front of ...

74 Jackie 1930–1962 of the examiners’ jury, Ferdinand Alquié, had been more direct, recommending Derrida to ‘get more of a prope ...

The École Normale Supérieure 1952–1956 75 the École, Maurice de Gandillac invited him on several occasions to the receptions tha ...

76 Jackie 1930–1962 the young woman a glimpse of the Algerian world in which he had grown up. Marguerite was born in 1932, in a ...