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.)