Monthly Archives: November 2005

Children fear bogey­men, Derrida writes. It is only through the rep­e­ti­tion of some kind of mag­i­cal incan­ta­tion that we can rid chil­dren of this fear. The “exor­cism” or “anti­dote” they seek is dialec­tics (121). He calls this prac­tice “anam­nesic dialec­tics,” in other words the un-forgetting dialec­tics, the re-membering dialectics. There are anti­dotes and prob­lems and fences [...]