With Freud, without Freud, against him, the concept of the archive undoubtedly resembles a symptom, a pain, a passion: the archive of evil but also that which destroys, exiles, sweeps away even the principle of the archive, namely radical evil.

There then arises infinite, incomparable, always like an objection, 'like the sorrow of the archive', the expectation without an horizon of expectation, the absolute impatience of a yearning for memory.

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