L'écriture autobiographique chez Derrida

Abstract

This article proposes an analysis on the question of autobiography from the classicalsense of its term, to arrive at a new approach to the autos and to the biography, andfinally to conceive the writing as the event. This article interrogates the "I" who knowsthe identification. Autobiography is an assembly of identities, which requires thereadability of oneself. However, the relationship to the language as much as oneself isaporetic because the "I" is placed between the impossibility of owning oneself andlanguage or of appropriating it all in forming some "I " in language and life. Everythinghappens necessarily in the language in which we were born, we grew up or to which wewere adapted; whatever the relationship builds, it must first go through the language. The construction of autobiography or autobiographical writing is necessarily related tothe language ; and it is subject to the law of language like "translation". It is not just thelaw of translation, but it is the law itself like translation; thus we are subject totranslation; thus the translation imposes. The autobiographical writing is considered asa relationship in translation between "I", "I" and "language (s)," not as a homogeneousnarrative provided by the identity of the narrator and the author; here, it is put on trial. This writing is also considered as the desire of some totalization; keep all traces of lifeto think of it or write it, that's an impossible desire. Unable builds the event: the eventalways promises more than given. What is missing to arrive is probably keeping thememory under seals: the event can arrive without awareness. The philosophy buildsmachines to repeat; the literature is the power to say all; and (autobiogaphical) writingis placed between; the desire for totalization and its impossibility: an impossibleproject, but which do not concede to this impossibility itself.