572 Notes to pp. 328–343
61 Letter from Derrida to Paul de Man, 13 October 1981.
62 Letter from Geoff rey Hartman to Derrida, 1 September 1981.
63 Interview with Bernard Pautrat.
64 Derrida, ‘L’avenir de l’école littéraire: quelques propositions pour un
avant-projet’, November 1981, IMEC archives.
65 Pamphlet by Emmanuel Martineau, December 1981, IMEC archives.
66 ‘Bâtons rompus’, dialogue between Hélène Cixous and Jacques
Derrida, in Dutoit and Romanski, eds, Derrida d’ici, Derrida de là,
p. 197.
Chapter 13 Night in Prague 1981–19821 Interviews with Catherine Audard and Alan Montefi ore.
2 Seminar of Wednesday 6 January 1982, IMEC archives.
3 I am partly relying on the account given by Barbara Day in The Velvet
Philosophers (London: Claridge Press, 1999).
4 Interview given by Derrida to the 8 p.m. news programme on the
TV channel Antenne 2, on 2 January 1982: http://www.ina.fr/video/
CAB91050888/liberation-de-jacques-derrida.fr.html.
5 Interview given by Derrida to the 12.45 p.m. news programme on
Antenne 2, on 2 January: http://www.ina.fr/video/CAB91050879/recit-
derrida.fr.html.
6 Derrida, interview with Catherine David published as ‘Derrida
l’insoumis’ in Le Nouvel Observateur, 9–15 September 1983; English
translation in Points.. ., ‘Unsealing (“the old new language”)’, p. 128.
7 ‘Unsealing (“the old new language”)’, in Points.. ., pp. 128–9.
8 Interview with Marguerite Derrida.
9 Interview with Denis Belbourg.
10 ‘Unsealing (“the old new language”)’, p. 128.
11 Interview with Marguerite Derrida.
12 All the Antenne 2 sequences devoted to Derrida’s return can be seen on
the INA website: http://www.ina.fr.
13 Interviews with Jean Derrida and Avital Ronell.
14 Ministry of Foreign Aff airs, diplomatic archives of la Courneuve.
Dossier EU 1981–1985, TCH 13-2.
15 Letter from Philippe Sollers to Derrida, 2 January 1982.
16 Letter from Derrida to Philippe Sollers, n.d. (January 1982).
17 ‘ “To do justice to Freud”: The history of madness in the age of psy-
choanalysis’, in Derrida, Resistances of Psychoanalysis, p. 81.
18 This was told me by Étienne Balibar.
19 Derrida, ‘Circumfession’, p. 71 and p. 300.
20 Malabou and Derrida, Counterpath, p. 32 n. 9.
Chapter 14 A New Hand of Cards 1982–19831 Libération, 21 and 22 November 1981. This interview was reprinted in
Eyes of the University.
2 Interview with Dominique Lecourt.
3 Letter quoted in Le Rapport bleu: les sources historiques et théor-
iques du Collège international de philosophie, co-authored by François