Writing, memory and difference: Derrida’s reading Platon writing phármakon

Abstract

This article deals with the theme of memory and its relationship with writing in the Phaedrus, considering deconstructive strategy made by J. Derrida in his text “Plato’s Pharmacy,” in which areading is made with the purpose to search the differences, the contradictions, and the “deconstructive” elements themselves present in the famous platonic dialogue.