Deconstruction

Deconstructionism is the center point of mystery in literature and it is what makes us ask questions. The ambiguities of the text makes the readers understand the inner workings or meaning of the text. Deconstruction has a lot to offer us: it approves our ability to think critically and easily see the ways in which our experiences are determined by ideologies of which we are unaware of because they are intertwined into the confines of our our own language. Deconstruction looks at the sentences ambiguities. I really like the linguistic approach that this theory brings forth like the chain of signifiers and binary oppositions through text. Also, I am really interested in the idea of how binaries connect to personal ideologies and deconstructing human identity. 

Some questions that deconstructionist critics may ask are: What ideology does the text promote? How can we use different conflicting interpretations a text presents to demonstrate the instability of language and the true meaning?

Jacques Derrida argues that language has two important characteristics. The structure and symbolism of signifiers and the meaning it has on the differences of the signifiers, So how we distinguish them. He thinks it is very important to stretch language in many ways because deconstructionism is believed to form the identity of humans and what we believe. Derrida said at times he expressed regret concerning the fate of the word “deconstruction,” its popularity indicates the wide-ranging influence of his thought in philosophy, literary criticism/theory, art, architectural theory, and in political theory. He argues that there is nothingness outside the text. 

Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Claude Levi-Strauss all influenced each others career in different ways piggy-baking off of structuralist ideas, like seismology, to adapt a greater meaning of text and society.