Abstract

This essay is based on the questioning of the monument invisibility in the cities and its destruction in times of war or political change. The historians and urban planners agreed that it protects the civil memory; projects itself into the future and constitutes an archive. The question about the archive is examined based on the Jacques Derrida’s "Archive Fever" and Sigmund Freud “Unconscious” and “Death” concepts, under the understanding that psychoanalysis is an archive theory. The essay concludes that the monument itself is the memory of oblivion and carries within the destructive process of the Death drive. What protects is the unknown, which will open from the “à-venir” (to-come-up).

Key words: monument; archive fever; historical memory; magic board; archive theory