Notes to pp. 282–290 567
40 Interview with Ellen Burt.
41 Yale Daily News, 11 October 2004.
42 For further details on this translation, which had a decisive impact on
the reception of Derrida, see Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, ‘Touched
by deconstruction’, Grey Room no. 20, 2005, pp. 95–104.
43 Cusset, French Theory, pp. 109–11.
44 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 10 October 1976.
45 Jacques Derrida, ‘Me – psychoanalysis’, in Psyche, vol. 1, p. 132.
46 Further details on Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok (or Mária
Török) can be found at: http://www.abraham-torok.org/.
47 During her training analysis, Marguerite Derrida – partly for fi nan-
cial reasons – translated several works by Melanie Klein: Mourning
and Depression, Child Psychoanalysis, and part of Envy and Gratitude
and Other Essays. Over the same period, she also translated Vladimir
Propp’s Morphology of the Folktale into French.
48 Interview with Marguerite Derrida.
49 Letter from Jacques Derrida to Sarah Kofman, 6 August 1976.
50 Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., II, p. 599.
51 Jacques Lacan, L’insu que sait de l’une-bévue s’aile à mourre, Seminar
XXIV, 1976–7, p. 48. I am here quoting from an internal document
of the International Freudian Association available online (http://
emc.psycho.free.fr/lacan). The offi cial version published in Ornicar
no. 17–18, 1978, was greatly abbreviated: the references to Derrida –
suggesting that he was then in analysis – were eliminated.
52 Lacan, L’insu, pp. 52–3.
53 ‘For the love of Lacan’, in Resistances of Psychoanalysis, p. 47.
54 Lacan, L’insu, p. 52.
55 Interview with René Major. See also his Lacan avec Derrida (Paris:
Champs-Flammarion, 2001).
56 Letter from René Major to Derrida, 26 November 1976.
57 Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., II, p. 604.
58 Derrida, ‘Du tout’, in The Post Card, pp. 497–521.
Chapter 10 Another Life 1976–19771 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
2 Interview with Jean Derrida.
3 Interview with Camilla Adami.
4 Interviews with Martine Meskel, Marie-Louise Mallet, and Michel
Deguy.
5 Interview with Pierre Alféri.
6 Letter from Derrida to Roger Laporte, 16 March 1976.
7 Letter from Derrida to Laporte, 24 December 1976.
8 Derrida, Sur parole, pp. 18–19.
9 Derrida and Bennington, Jacques Derrida, p. 89.
10 Derrida, personal notebooks, note of 24 December 1976, Irvine
archives. This text was published in a slightly diff erent form in
‘Circumfession’, in Derrida and Bennington, Jacques Derrida,
pp. 115–16. The fragments of notebooks quoted in ‘Circumfession’
were signifi cantly rewritten.