This is the device of placing words sous rature or 'under erasure', signified by crossing them through in the text and thus warning the reader not to accept them at philosophic face value

This ludic or playful dimension is very much a part of Derrida's refusal to subjugate 'writing' to 'philosophy'

For Derrida, the language of dialectical materialism is shot through with metaphors disguised as concepts

Deconstruction is inimical to Marxist thought at the point where it questions the validity of any science or method set up in rigid separation from the play of textual meaning

During the sixties and early seventies his thinking was much influenced by a group of critics--the so-called 'Geneva School'--who saw interpretation as an effort to grasp the states of awareness embodied in literary texts

Again, there is a gap opened up between the claim to truth and the way in which the text deconstructs that claim as a merely rhetorical or post hoc rationalization

the acts of creative 'misprision', or swerves from origin, which Bloom sees at work in all great poetry

Freud's indelible figures of writing are his chief contribution to a knowledge of the unconscious