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But psychoanalysis has taught that the dead—a dead parent, for example—can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.

Jacques Derrida

Jacques Derrida (20th century), French philosopher. Quoted in "Jacques Derrida," by Mitchell Stephens, New York Times Magazine (January 23, 1994).

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