Derrida On 'Ghostly Hauntings' ... And Kafka's 'Ghost'

In these two clips from Ken McMullen's improvisational 'Ghost Dance' (1983), Jacques Derrida describes an 'unnatural' ghostly haunting whereby the dead are taken into us, but they are not internalized as they would be under more 'normal' circumstances (a psychoanalytic view of mourning) - he labels this as 'terrifying;' in the second excerpt, Derrida recounts his 1982 arrest in Czechoslavakia on trumped-up drug charges ... Derrida, who was working on an essay about Czech author Franz Kafka (ironically, regarding the 'Before the Law' section of 'The Trial'), claims Kafka's ghost seemed to 'direct' this entire scenario in a strange film-like way ... the actresses are Leonie Mellinger and the late Pascale Ogier...

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