I have a taste for the secret,
it clearly has to do with not-belonging;
I have an impulse or fear or terror in the
face of a political space, for example,
a public space that makes no room for the secret.
For me, the demand that everything be paraded in
the public square and that there be no internal
forum is a glaring sign of the totalitarianization
of democracy. [. . .] if a right to the secret is
not maintained, we are in a totalitarian space.
(Jacques Derrida, in Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan & Co., II, p. 599.)
