Notes to pp. 159–167 555
10 Letter from Jean Genet to Derrida, n.d.
11 Letter from Derrida to Louis Althusser, 2 August 1965.
12 Letter from Jean Piel to Derrida, 3 October 1965.
13 Derrida, Of Grammatology, tr. by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. 70.
14 Derrida, ‘Letter to a Japanese friend’, in Psyche: Inventions of the
Other, vol. 2, ed. by Peggy Kamuf and Elizabeth Rottenberg (Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007), pp. 1–2. I feel it is important
to note that in German the word ‘Destruktion’ is not used in everyday
life; it is exclusive to philosophy and does not have the nihilistic con-
notations that the word destruction would inevitably have in French
[or English – Tr.].
15 Letter from Michel Foucault to Derrida, 21 December 1965.
16 Letter from Emmanuel Levinas to Derrida, 30 January 1966.
17 Letter from Derrida to Gabriel Bounoure, 21 January 1966.
18 Remarks by Roger Laporte quoted by Thierry Guichard in ‘L’épreuve
par neuf’, Le Matricule des Anges no. 32, September–November 2000.
19 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 10 August 1965.
20 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 19 February 1966.
21 Letter from Derrida to Henry Bauchau, 24 July 1966.
22 Derrida and Roudinesco, For What Tomorrow.. ., p. 169.
23 Interview with Marguerite Derrida. It was thanks to Marguerite, but
also probably through his friend Nicolas Abraham, whom he met in
Cerisy in 1959, that Derrida discovered the work of Melanie Klein. He
discusses one of her essays on psychoanalysis in Of Grammatology, p. 88.
24 Writing and Diff erence, p. 266.
25 Letter from Roland Barthes to Derrida, 8 August 1966.
26 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 29 December 1965.
27 Letter from Geneviève Bollème to Derrida, 16 June 1966.
28 Letter from Derrida to Michel Deguy, 20 August 1966.
29 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, n.d. (27 August 1966).
30 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Derrida, 27 August 1966.
31 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 24 September 1966.
32 Letter from Jean Piel to Derrida, 28 September 1966.
33 Letter from Derrida to Jean Piel, 30 October 1966.
34 Letter from Derrida to Jean Piel, 12 November 1966.
35 Derrida, ‘For the love of Lacan’, in Resistances of Psychoanalysis, tr.
by Peggy Kamuf, Pascale-Anne Brault, and Michael Naas (Stanford,
Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1998), p. 50.
36 Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., II, p. 410. There is also an
excellent discussion of the Baltimore conference in François Cusset,
French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze & Co. Transformed
the Intellectual Life of the United States, tr. by Jeff Fort with Josephine
Berganza and Marlon Jones (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2008), pp. 29–32.
37 Georges Poulet’s words are quoted by Babette Genette in a letter to
Marguerite and Jacques Derrida, 4 November 1966.
38 Interview with J. Hillis Miller.
39 Interview with David Carroll.
40 Writing and Diff erence, pp. 369–70.