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Q: Do you think poetry can be medicinal, like Socrates suggested by calling text ‘pharmakon’, and Jaques Derrida wrote about in his essay ‘Plato’s Pharmacy’?
D: A lot of my writing comes from a need to process and deal with the world and things that happen, but I’m against the idea that poetry can be a final fix or cure. It is actually more metabolic, or like breathing: if something happens to me, reading or writing isn’t going to make it go away, but with reading, as with breathing, I can get through it. I’m also interested in poetry as a method of enquiry. In On the Nature of Things, Lucretius says he uses poetry to write about science, because it is like the sweet honey around the rim of a cup of bitter medicine. Poetry seems ‘sweet’ and innocuous, but can smuggle in other ‘substances’ that may be more unpalatable if taken directly.
Valerio Adami, Portrait de Jacques Derrida, 2004
Lithograph on Velin BFK Rives paper; 83 cm × 60 cm; printed by Robert and Lydia Dutrou, 2013; edition of 75
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“There is a Last Supper in every poem, which says: This is my body, here and now. And you know what comes next: passions, crucifixions, executions. Others would also say resurrections…”—Jacques Derrida,Sovereignties in Question: The Poetics of Paul Celan
Jacques Derrida’s lecture: On Autobiography
October 16, 1979 (at Toronto, Canada)
Geoffrey Bennington, “Geschlecht pollachōs legetai: Derrida’s Heidegger and Aristotle”
conference “Reading Derrida’s Geschlecht III” ( Princeton University, Oct 2018)
Geschlecht III - Jacques Derrida(Seuil)
