August 18, 1995

interviewer: One more question about “filiation”: On the one hand, you describe yourself in a relation of filiation, of respect with regard to “symbolic fathers”, even if that is a strategic matter, but on the other hand you have other types of address. I had the feeling that you address questions or appeals more than you transmit messages, the latter being more consistent with the symbolic notion of the Father (I am thinking of figures like Lacan); I was thinking that you create around yourself a network that is more one of affinity or attraction (in response perhaps to the “come”), than of affiliation.

Derrida: Perhaps...