Structure, Sign And Play In The Discourse Of The Human Sciences: Revie

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Immediately however, Derrida notes that he is not presuming to place himself ?outside' of the critical circle or totality in order to so criticise. While the function of the centre of the structure is identified as that which reduces the possibility of thinking this structurality of structure, even though "it has always been at work" (278), that is, it has always been an economic and economising factor within Western philosophy limiting the play of the structure ? where I understand play to be associated with "uneconomic" deconstructive notions such as supplementarity, the trace, and differance, Derrida notes that "even today the notion of a structure lacking any center [sic] represents the unthinkable itself" (279)...
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For while the centre closes off play, it apparently cannot be done without, at least, it cannot be simply discarded without it re-emerging somewhere else within the totality. The conundrum is in fact a paradox and a coherent contradiction of classical thought, which echoes the Freudian theory of neurotic symptoms where a symbol at once expresses the desire to fulfil and suppress a given impulse (339)...
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