| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 16118 |
| QUOTATION: | But psychoanalysis has taught that the deada dead parent, for examplecan be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Jacques Derrida (20th century), French philosopher. Quoted in Jacques Derrida, by Mitchell Stephens, New York Times Magazine (January 23, 1994). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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