Archivization

But it was certainly toward the giving over of his text into the charge of others, its archivization, that he was pointing there.

Her essay examines the poetics of two contemporary, yet fundamentally different, archivizations of Dickinson’s writings: the 1998 variorum of her poems, an archive of Dickinson’s poems reproduced in and for the print medium, and the Dickinson Electronic Archives Project , an archive of the poet’s complete writings reproduced in facsimiles and diplomatic transcriptions from Dickinson’s manuscripts in digital format.

For Freud, then, it is not the dream of archaeology to revivify and relive the ancient past, but to witness its death and therefore its moment of archivization.[…]Freud’s revolutionary rethink of archivization means, as Derrida puts it, that one can ‘recall and archive the very thing one represses, archive it while repressing it (because repression is an archivization), that is to say, to archive otherwise, to repress the archive while [simultaneously] archiving the repression; otherwise…than according to the current, conscious, patent modes of archivization.