Circumcision , That's All I've Ever Talked

To Pretend, I Actually Do The Thing: I Have Therefore Only Pretended To Pretend.

Psychoanalysis Has Taught That The Dead – A Dead Parent, For Example – Can Be More Alive For Us, More Powerful, More Scary, Than The Living. It Is The Question Of Ghosts.

The Trace I Leave To Me Means At Once My Death, To Come Or Already Come, And The Hope That It Will Survive Me. It Is Not An Ambition Of Immortality; It Is Fundamental. I Leave Here A Bit Of Paper, I Leave, I Die; It Is Impossible To Exit This Structure; It Is The Unchanging Form Of My Life. Every Time I Let Something Go, I Live My Death In Writing.

There Is No Rigorous And Effective Deconstruction Without The Faithful Memory Of Philosophies And Literatures, Without The Respectful And Competent Reading Of Texts Of The Past, As Well As Singular Works Of Our Own Time. Deconstruction Is Also A Certain Thinking About Tradition And Context. Mark Taylor Evokes This With Great Clarity In The Course Of A Remarkable Introduction. He Reconstitutes A Set Of Premises Without Which No Deconstruction Could Have Seen The Light Of Day.

I Would Say That Deconstruction Is Affirmation Rather Than Questioning, In A Sense Which Is Not Positive: I Would Distinguish Between The Positive, Or Positions, And Affirmations. I Think That Deconstruction Is Affirmative Rather Than Questioning: This Affirmation Goes Through Some Radical Questioning, But It Is Not Questioning In The Field Of Analysis.