This article intends to explore some of the interfaces of psychoanalysis discussed by Derrida in his essay Archive Fever. A Freudian impression (2001). The following ideas were therefore selected as pillars of this text: the discussion on the markedly subversive character found in the concept of memory postulated by Freudian psychoanalysis; Derrida’s path which, guided by the study of certain articles by Freud on memory, raised psychoanalysis to the status of science of the archive; the exploitation of that fever as a fundamental and multifaceted ingredient which, imbued with a reflection on Freud’s death drive, is central to the essay to understand Derrida’s archive.
Key words:
Psychoanalysis; memory; archive; archive fever