Index

absence, 16-20, 32, 48-49, 76-77, 159, 161, 165-66, 169-70, 186, 236, 267, 317

affirmation, xii, 9, 277, 282, 301-309 passim. See also yes.

alētheia (truth), 2, 33, 35, 63, 159, 169

anxiety, 8, 237, 247-48, 250-54, 257, 262, 264, 288,331

Aquinas, Thomas, 55, 67, 82, 318

Aristotle, 3-4, 8, 13-29 passim, 42, 45, 47-48, 75-77, 82, 90, 142, 168, 170-71, 182, 210, 240-51, 268, 274, 282, 315-16

arkhē kinēseōs (the principle of motion), 19, 22, 77, 96, 142-45, 148, 157, 182, 210, 224

art, 17, 33-34, 96; as imagination, 198; of memory, 54-55; of philosophy, 190; of weaving, 48, 190-92, 327; of writing, 60, 319

Augustine, 52-56, 62, 75, 89, 92, 100-102, 127, 177, 188, 219, 241-42, 268, 271

aviary, the, 27, 48, 51, 66, 169, 223, 229, 286

Avicenna, 66

Bacon, Francis, 58

Bataille, Georges, 217, 301, 311, 319-20, 327, 335

Benjamin, Walter, 322

Bergson, Henri, 180, 321, 325

body, 5, 22, 25-26, 58, 66, 68, 90, 93, 168, 177—79; separation of soul from, 45-46, 50; Socrates’ “etymology” of, 51-52; as tomb and engraved sign, 77

Borges, Jorge Luis, xi, 79

Boyle, Joseph, 83

Breuer, Josef, 149; Freud and, 106-108

Bruno, Giordano, 56

Camillo, Giulio, 56

Capella, Martianus, 55

Casey, Edward S., 283, 322; mnemic phenomena, 315

cathexis (Besetzung), 120, 125-38 passim, 141, 147, 156; and desire, 124, 132-33; lateral, 126-28, 138-43 passim, 145, 209; satisfaction by way of, 123

Cicero, 55

Claudel, Paul, 97

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 5, 167, 321

commemoration, 253, 263-72 passim

consciousness, 6, 93-94, 125, 138-60 passim, 183, 186-87, 212, 278; ego-consciousness, 107-108, 137, 157; experience of, 230-34; and intelligence, 215; natural, 231—33, 237, 247, 329; origin of, 156; and perception, 118-22, 135, 154-58; phenomenological, 329; reflexive, 325; representational, 318; and time, xi, 214; as unhappy, 237, 328

de Man, Paul, 282, 284, 290-92, 296, 298, 328,334

Democritus, 23-24

Derrida, Jacques, 7, 49-50, 67, 94, 104-105, 112-14, 141,148-59 passim, 165-204 passim, 205, 219-21, 277-312 passim, 315, 318-19, 323, 325-27, 331, 334-35; on cryptonymy, 285-86; demonstration of “double-inscription” of mimesis, 317; on Joyce, 299-306 passim

Descartes, 3, 5, 54, 56-73 passim, 82, 85, 90, 92, 101, 149, 165, 172, 177, 254, 286, 318-19; on foetal memory, 320; his account of memory, 69; theory of “memory traces,” 88, 134

différance, 7, 49, 67, 159, 172, 174-75, 182-83, 187, 208. See trace

difference, 7, 30, 31, 36, 39-40, 48-49, 80, 101, 111, 114, 167, 174-76, 179, 186, 207, 217, 299; between fear and anxiety, 250; in Cartesian physiology, 66; ontological, 176, 292; as pharmakon, 198

Dilthey, Wilhelm, 19, 122

Diogenes Laertius, 36

dream, 42, 50, 129-45 passim, 194-97, 199, 203-204, 263; Plato’s, 7, 166, 186-87, 196-97, 201-203; Derrida’s, 201

Driesch, Hans, 122

ecstases of time, 8, 96, 243-53 passim, 257-64 passim, 307

ego, 6, 107, 124-41 passim, 184; ego-consciousness, 107-108, 137, 156-59; ego-formation, 284-85

eidōlon, 25-36 passim, 168, 196-97, 283

eikōn, 17, 23, 28-41 passim, 48-49, 51, 76, 89, 168, 173,201-202

Erasistratus of Chios, 64

eternal recurrence, xii, 9, 277-82 passim, 314

eternity, 301

Exner, Sigmund, 110

eye, the, 68, 80. See also pineal eye

father, the, 101, 172, 192-95, 199-201

Ficino, Marsiglio, 56

Fink, Eugen, 174, 329

Fliess, Wilhelm, 105, 111, 122, 150-51, 158, 284, 322-24

footprints, 25,54,62,77,90,167. See vestiges

forgetting, 50, 106-107, 149-50, 214, 240-54 passim, 259-60, 264, 272-73, 329, 331. See also oblivion

Fóti, Véronique M., 60, 318-9, 321

Foucault, Michel, 320

Freud, Sigmund, 6-7, 28, 83, 104-162 passim, 183-85, 197, 315, 319, 323-25; on mourning, 284-85

future, 243-75 passim, 280-81, 287, 292; original, 330-31

Galen, 64

Gasché, Rodolphe, 7, 166-68, 175, 325

God, 46, 52, 78, 172, 183, 210, 237, 283, 297, 301, 321

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang, 236

hallucination, 128-31, 136-47 passim, 152, 198,218,285, 325

Hals, Franz, 70

Hartley, David, 5, 103, 321, 323

Harvey, William, 62, 64

Hebb, D. O., 87

Hegel, Georg W. F., 7-9, 28, 55, 60, 92, 109, 118, 131, 134, 145, 149, 180, 186-87, 193, 204, 205-39 passim, 240, 256, 264, 267, 282-84, 290, 311, 312, 326-30

Heidegger, Martin, xi, 8-9, 14, 19-20, 35, 39, 52, 88-89, 96, 122, 166, 169, 174, 176, 180, 182-85, 204, 229, 238, 240-76 passim, 284, 287-90, 293-99 passim, 315-16, 321,325, 330, 332

hermeneutics, 49, 52, 253, 262

Hobbes, Thomas, 5, 82, 117, 119, 146, 184, 321; and Locke, 73-81 passim, 140-41, 169; “dynamic trace theory” of, 89

Holbach, Baron d’, 82

Hölderlin, Friedrich, 78, 131, 238, 259, 265-67, 270, 283-84, 298-99, 334

hollow (creux), 6, 92-95, 101, 103, 173, 177-83 passim, 191,325

Homer, 23-26, 190,317

homoiōsis, 29, 35, 168. See also likeness

Hume, David, 5, 82, 119, 146, 231, 321

Husserl, Edmund, xi, 21, 90, 132, 150, 166, 180-85 passim, 256, 291, 300, 322, 324, 335

hypnosis, 106-107, 136, 197

Hyppolite, Jean, 238, 329

hysteria, 105-110 passim, 320

imagination, 9, 59-64 passim, 79-82, 177, 205-206, 212, 218, 225-28; account of, 326; as faded perception, 119; freedom of, 328; poetic, 219; productive, 220, 226; reproductive, 218

impressions, 38, 50-84 passim, 90; decay of, 76-77; imprint, 2, 4, 44, 47, 53, 58, 104, 167, 176, 180, 182, 189-91, 214; impulses, 75; psychic imprint, 19, 175, 180-81, 321. See also typos

inscription, 16, 19, 192; in memory processes, 4; in speech, 178; writing, 16, 166-79 passim, 317

intellectual memory. See memory

intuition, 211-27 passim, 264, 328

Irving, Washington, 1

Jaspers, Karl, 257

Joyce, James, 9, 299-309 passim, 335

Jünger, Ernst, 272

Kafka, Franz, 77, 275

Kant, Immanuel, 175-76, 180, 185-86, 198, 214, 227-28, 316, 319, 325; on hypotyposis, 228, 328

khōra, 6, 38, 95, 187-92 passim, 195-96, 199-201, 275. See also receptacle

Kierkegaard, Soren, 5

kinēsis (motion), 18-22, 179

Klossowski, Pierre, 9, 277-82 passim, 288,

298, 302-307 passim, 332-34

Kris, Ernst, 104, 114, 127, 135, 148, 324

Lacan, Jacques, 130, 324

Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe, 272, 316, 332

Lamettrie, Julien de, 82, 85

Lashley, K. S., 87

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 24, 56, 83, 318

Levinas, Emmanuel, 94, 183, 325

likeness, 4, 17-18, 28-29, 33, 37, 41, 47-49, 165, 168, 171, 236. See also eikōn, homoiōsis

Llewelyn, John, 201, 326

Locke, John, 5, 55, 82, 215, 281, 309, 318; Hobbes and, 73-81 passim, 140-41, 169; memory as storehouse, 75-76, 181, 189

logos, 36, 39, 40, 49, 108, 140, 169-72, 178, 182, 186-88, 191-95, 199-200, 265

Lull, Raymond, 56

Malebranche, Nicolas, 62, 74, 83

mechanism, 135, 151, 155; attention, 139; “pathological defense,” 75-76; of primitive memory, 198; psychic, 104, 122

memory, 76-77, 81-82, 138, 157, 160, 165, 177, 186, 197, 205, 211-12, 225, 239, 254; active reminiscence, 77; and affirmation, xii, 301-309 passim; ambiguity of, 292; art of, 56, 58; child’s, 131-32; as “conservation” versus “construction,” 98-100; contact-barrier theory, 112, 121, 153; corporeal; 58, 62-64, 101; decay of, 80, 102; Descartes’ accounts of, 56-74 passim, 101; difference between mnēmē and hypomnēsis, 191; duplicity of, 317; embodied, xi, 92-101 passim; engrammatology of, 3-5, 39-47 passim, 165-66, 197; enigma of, 18, 90, 170; essence of, 298; faithful, 290; as finite, 196-97; in Freud’s “Project,” 110-13, 118, 120, 154; gathering of thought, 90, 263-67, 272-76, 282, 293; genealogy of, 268; and having-been, 243; image, 146, 222; “inner writing,” 55-57, 69, 102, 197; intellectual, 5, 56, 61-63, 78, 101, 320; interiorizing remembrance, 205-30 passim, 235-37; language and, 229, 294; local, 61, 94; long-term, 2; marks or notes of, 130, 167-69; “memory theater,” 56, 266; Derrida’s analysis of mechanical, 327; metaphysics of, 204; and mourning, 277, 283-92 passim, 298-99; neurophysical evidence for, 87-90; in neurosis, 137; and perception, 75, 82, 123, 138, 143, 151, 154, 161; physiology of, 65; power of, 52; prodigal, 79; productive, 206, 220-21, 226, 238; in psychopathology, 138; “pure” in Bergson, 321; of reality, 144; remembrance, 43, 204, 211, 222, 327; and reminiscence, 21, 45, 102—104; rhetoric of, 292; reproductive, 155, 222-28 passim; reproductive thinking, 134, 222, 226-28; spaces of, 53, 177; as storehouse, 75-76, 181, 189; susceptibility of, 197; temporalization and temporising of, 174; thinking, 221-24, 272; the topos of, 186; traces, 87, 187; “true memory,” 99, 224; truth of, 2; as typography, 273-74; unconscious memory systems, 156-58; voluntary/involuntary, xii, 92-99 passim; and writing, 4, 27, 41, 48-49, 59-60, 105, 166, 197

Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, xi, 6-7, 19, 82-103 passim, 159, 167, 173, 177-84 passim, 199, 246, 321-25; on the body, 278; on dialectical truth, 229; “Monday Course” of 1954-55, 98-100

metaphor(s), 2, 4, 18, 25, 39, 44, 57, 76, 86, 178-81, 187-89; for knowledge, 28; for memory, 4, 27, 48, 105; of motion, 81; for nature, 216; for writing, 44, 172, 178, 195; mimēsis, imitation, 32-35, 48, 72-73, 169, 189, 317

Mnemosyne, 25-26, 39, 46, 69, 81, 226, 238, 262-68 passim, 272, 282-84, 292-93, 298

model(s), 24, 57; for Dasein, 249; eidetic, 191; of flight from pain, 117, 125, of image and original, 167; for memory, 51-53, 70, 82-83, 86-89, 102, 165, 180; wax/signet, 58, 75; of writing and reading, 105

“Mystic Writing Pad,” 7, 105, 148-62 passim, 198

names, 42, 51, 61, 81, 218-23 passim, 228, 239, 264, 291, 306; corporeal, 61; signature, 291, 297, 301-302, 306, 309, 328

nature: geological, 207-209, 215; metaphor for, 216; philosophy of, 206-207, 216

neurons, 6, 110-18 passim, 126, 132, 140, 142, 148, 189, 323; contact-barrier theory, 113; duplex theory of, 115; phi-, 6, 110, 115-22 passim, 126, 136, 138,146, 150-57 passim; psi-, 6, 110-41 passim, 151-57 passim; W-, 6, 110, 119-57 passim, 324; perceptual, 120, 139

neurophysiology, xi, 2, 5, 82-89 passim, 102, 321, 323-24. See “Project”

Nietzsche, Friedrich, xi, 8-9, 79, 106, 122, 174, 179, 183, 194, 204, 219, 233, 240, 255-65 passim, 268, 271-76 passim, 287-88, 291, 298, 303-305, 315, 323-24; his account of time, 273; on affirmative thought, 277-79

oblivion, 71, 78, 100, 107, 136-38,150, 165, 170, 173, 177, 198, 214-16, 220, 233, 243, 256, 264, 272-74, 329-31; absolute, 220; ecstasy and delirium as, 278; enforced, 106; marks of, 170; perfect, 241, 249, 264; and the poem, 281; remembrance and, 99, 240-42, 246-57 passim; sense of, 165; of unconsciousness, 215; total, 247; vicious circle, 279. See forgetting

oppositional pairs, 187-204 passim

pain, 9, 122-24, 129, 134-36, 146, 149-50, 278, 289, 296-97; experience of, 125; model of flight from, 117; pathology of, 116-17

Parmenides, 29, 48

Pascal, Blaise, 78

passivity, 97, 99

past, the, 7, 14-16, 25, 42, 47-48, 54, 90-91, 99, 102, 183, 204, 250, 254, 267-68; the absolute past, 7, 166, 176-86 passim, 200, 204, 210, 256; the bygone, 8, 210, 266-72 passim, 277, 301; geological, 208; monumental, 260-61; presence of the, 27, 168-70, 266, 325

pathos (feeling, affection), 13, 17-18, 22, 25, 35,47, 75-76, 117,168

perception, 6, 15, 19, 27, 63-67, 90, 113, 121—159 passim; and consciousness, 118—22, 153—58 passim; faded, 119; and memory, 75, 82, 123, 133, 138, 143, 151, 154, 161, 198; pure, 321; secondary, 77; true, 128

perfect, the, 240-76 passim

periodicity, 120-25 passim, 134, 144, 158-59, 186

Peter of Ravenna, 57-58

phantastikē/eikastikē, 30—36 passim, 42, 130

pharmakon, 43, 189-202 passim; essence of the, 198; of writing, 193, 197

phenomenology, 8, 85, 88-90, 97, 102-104, 175, 184, 186, 230-33, 241-42, 251, 254-55, 329

physiology, 5—7, 63—74 passim, 89—90; Cartesian, 64; of the engram, 176—77; of phonemes, 41

physis (nature), 21, 35, 168, 261

pineal eye, 319-20

pineal gland, 54, 60-61, 68, 70, 153, 167, 177, 254, 319-20

Plato, 4, 16, 24-26, 29, 34-36, 42, 44-45, 48-49, 55, 71, 90, 110, 113-14, 140, 155, 167-69, 186-204 passim, 293, 307, 315. See also Sophist

pleasure, 41, 122-25, 145, 151, 177, 255; memory of, 46; principles of, 325; zone of indifference, 122. See unpleasure

Pliny, 79

Pope Innocent III, 179

presence, 6, 15-16, 19, 25, 31, 34, 42-43, 48, 57, 60, 63, 75, 102, 159, 165-66, 173-88 passim, 196, 201, 214-15, 236; of anxiety, 252; being and, 54-56, 274; coming to, 165, 266-67, 292; field of, 94, 96, 98; lost, 219; of the machine, 72; of the past, xi, 27, 168-70, 176, 182; perfect, 168, 277, 305; permanence of, 270—71; of the present, 180; in the spaces of memory, 53

present, the, 14, 90, 98, 180, 183, 187, 204, 243, 247, 250-54, 260-61, 264, 273, 292

Pribram, Karl, H., 89, 322-24

Priestley, Joseph, 83

primary process, 104, 126-28, 133-36, 146, 148, 152, 155-58

“Project,” Freud’s, 6-7, 105-59 passim, 138-39, 148, 152, 156-59, 218, 274, 287, 323. See also neurons, neurophysiology

prokheiros (at hand), 27, 34, 48, 129, 154, 157

Protagoras, 25

Protarchus, 46

Proust, Marcel, 93-96, 322

psychoanalysis, 7, 103—13 passim, 133-40 passim, 147, 156, 179, 183, 185, 327; concept of cryptonymy, 285-87; psychology, 2, 23, 84, 97, 101, 110, 138-39, 326-27; empirical, 83, 102; quantitative, 139, 155; scientific, 104, 109, 128, 137, 148, 244. See also Freud

Pythagoras, 36

Quintilian, 55, 61, 169, 177, 188

receptacle, the (hypodokhē), 6, 37-39, 54, 75, 192, 197, 199, 287. See also khōra

reminiscence, 19-21, 41, 45, 47-48, 63, 102-104, 149, 165-66, 197, 204

repetition, 102, 114, 129, 142, 202-204, 221-42 passim, 246-47, 251, 259; of intuition, 328; mechanical, 327; of the yes, 302-303, 309

repression, 104, 106, 110, 124-27, 137, 148, 274; of writing, 162, 179

Romberch, Johannes, 56

Rossellius, Cosmas, 56

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 46, 173, 188-89, 293,298

Sallis, John, 316, 331

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 91, 97, 176, 231, 322, 329

Saussure, Ferdinand de, 46, 140, 173, 179-80, 187-88,325

Scheler, Max, 122

Schelling, Friedrich W. J., 38, 46, 50, 216, 237, 252, 268, 271-72, 318, 327

secondary process, 128-30, 132-34, 139, 148

sēmeia, 25-26, 171, 316. See also signs, trace

sensation, 5, 53, 61, 74-75, 79, 82, 210-14, 217, 224, 228; and consciousness, 118; Descartes’ account of, 57; region of, 22

sensus communis, 58-59, 66-68, 102, 168

signs, 4, 5, 8, 25, 51-52, 72, 127, 142, 165, 170, 175, 197, 205, 226-28; from body to soul, 93; of chaos, 281—82; in cryptonymy, 287; dream, 136; of fall and ruinance, 301; and intelligence, 221-22; linguistic, 6, 54, 138, 172, 174, 324; of perceptions, 26; phonetic, 220; productive memory of, 221; quality, 6, 139-48 passim, 152, 186, 198, 287; quantity, 136, 139; reading of, 138; reality, 6, 128-41 passim, 148, 186, 287; semaphore, 125; sign-making fancy, 205-206, 218-19; thought, 148; undeciphered, 264-65. See also sēmeia

Simonides of Chios, 54-55

Socrates, 3, 14, 25-27, 32, 39-42, 44-46, 54, 70, 74, 127, 149, 165, 167, 171, 187, 192-93, 196, 199-201, 203, 265, 283, 293, 316—17; dialogue with Hermogenes, 51; dialogue with Theaetetus, 25-28, 49

Sophist, 23, 29-36 passim, 48-49, 171, 190

Sorabji, Richard, 13-14, 19, 315-16

soul, 5, 15-16, 25-26, 28, 42-44, 47-49, 52-53, 72, 98, 189, 207, 215, 267; affections of the, 170-71; and body, 45, 50-51, 93, 168, 177-79, 193; the child’s, 320; and logos, 171; pineal gland as seat of the, 319; rational, 57, 62-63, 70-73, 101; truth in the, 172, 187; typography and, 189; writing in the, 56

speech, 44, 55, 81, 117, 140-41, 145, 169-94 passim, 197, 201, 221, 225-28; living, 201; privilege of, 327

Spinoza, Baruch de, 301

spirit(s), 214, 218, 228, 235-66, 238; absolute, 210, 237; animal, 64-75 passim, 102-103, 319-20; for Hegel, 205-206; for Heidegger, 255; in the form of intuition, 212; and Freudian lateral cathexis, 209; perfection of, 234; phenomenology of, 230; philosophy of, 205-206, 210-11; power of, 231; practical, 207, 211, 225; present to itself, 215; of revenge, 268, 271—72; subjective, 211; trauma of, 238-39, 329

Sterne, Lawrence, 76, 80, 316, 321

Straus, Erwin, 6, 82-103 passim, 142, 167, 176, 322

supplement, 73, 149, 189-91, 197, 201, 220

Theaetetus, 23-28 passim, 30-32, 38-40, 48-51, 129, 131, 142, 167-71, 218, 223, 241, 283

thinking, 102,107,132-34,139-40,144,224, 227, 271-76 passim, 299; of being, 262,325; commemorative, 253,263-72 passim; critical, 143; and discourse, 171-73; as essence of the soul, 320; and eternal recurrence, 277-82 passim, 314; for Hegel, 205; memorative, 145; memory and, 221-24; practical, 142, 145; reproductive, 134—35,146; and suffering, 278; as thanking, 265-67

Thoreau, Henry David, 173

Timaeus, 23-24, 29, 36-39, 49, 52, 95, 187, 190-92, 196-200, 275, 317-18

time, 4, 14, 20-21, 36-37, 53, 89, 92, 94, 146, 157-68, 176, 179, 185-86, 236, 256, 266, 271; and being, 204, 243; ecstases of, 8, 96, 243-53 passim, 257-64 passim, 307; and eternity, 268, 271; and finite consciousness, 214; as “fundamental” passivity, 182; genesis of, 256, 259; geological, 208; horizon of, 272; imperfection of, 240, 268; “it was,” 204, 268-72, 276, 300; nature of, 316; in the soul, 53; space and, 180-86, 214, 222, 227-28; between thought and perception, 316

trace, 7, 84, 90, 134-45 passim, 152-88 passim, 203, 316, 320, 325. See also sēmeia, differance

trauma, 6, 105-107

truth. See alētheia

typos (imprint), 3, 18, 23-28, 36-49 passim, 54, 75, 88, 124, 140, 167, 169, 173, 182, 191, 202, 316. See also impressions

unpleasure, 106, 122—29 passim, 136, 141, 146-57 passim, 159, 237, 255. See also pleasure

verge, the, 1, 24, 49, 58-59, 62, 70, 82-83, 103-104, 153, 166, 168-69, 172-73, 177, 182, 190, 192, 203-204, 221, 238-39, 246, 257, 276, 328; of active thought, 228; of affirmation, 9, 277, 282; of anxiety, 253-54; of being the whole, 205; duplicity of, 96; experience of, 292; of having-been, 240; as pen or plume, 95; question of, 103; as recurrence, 260; of remembrance, 7, 209, 229, 237, 311, 329-31; as snake and abyss, 95; of the true, 230

vestiges, 5, 27, 53-54, 62, 77, 89, 127, 134, 139; of a beginning, 208; of remembrance, 105; sensuous, 219. See also footprints, trace

wish, 25, 123-24; cathexis, 127, 136, 147; fulfillment, 136-37

writing, 44-45, 49-50, 102, 104-105, 137-41, 151-78 passim, 186, 190, 193, 197, 205, 221, 226, 318-19; arche-, 166, 173-74, 187; art of, 60, 319; duplicity of, 317; of early memories, xi; and having-been, 243; “inner writing” in memory, 55—56, 69, 102, 197; and memory, 41, 49, 166; as metaphor for memory, 4, 27, 48, 105; as mute, 327; myth of, 193; opposition of “good” and “bad,” 50, 177-79, 187-90, 195; “natural,” 172; temporality of, 81, 159, 174; pad, 167 (See also “Mystic Writing Pad”); pharmakon, 193, 197; psychic, 184-85; repression of, 169; in the soul, 49, 56, 192; and speech, 171-74,189-90; as substitute for memory, 59-60; suppression of, 327; typography of, 40; on the verge of, 307

Yates, Frances A., 54-55, 267, 318

yes, 301-309 passim, 333. See also repetition, affirmation

Zeno, 29-30