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what he was asking me to do” (Derrida 1995:406). Die konsep is moeilik om te
verduidelik juis omdat dekonstruksie krities kyk na die taal waarmee dit verduidelik
moet word.
'n Teks word gedekonstrueer “not in order to destroy” (Derrida 1997:12), maar “to undo
a number of presuppositions, prejudices and so on and so forth” (Derrida 2001:110).
Dit gaan dus nie om afbreek in die sin van vernietig nie, maar eerder 'n uitmekaarhaal
ten einde die teks beter te verstaan. “It does not mean... saying whatever comes into
your head about the text, however absurd and ridiculous...” (Caputo 1997:79).
Oor die proses van dekonstruksie sê Derrida (2001:110) self “...there is no method but
there are (sic) some methodological schema...”. Die dekonstruksie van 'n teks behels
die “reading of texts in terms of their marks, traces, or indecidable features, in terms of
their margins, limits, or frameworks, and in terms of their self-circumscription or selfdelimitations
as texts” (Silverman 1989:4). 'n Teks word dus ondersoek vir wat die teks
sê sowel as dit wat nie gesê word nie. Caputo (1997:77) stel dit só:
But, for Derrida, a deconstructive reading is exceedingly close, finegrained,
meticulous, scholarly, serious, and, above all, ‘responsible,’
both in the sense of being able to give an account of itself in scholarly
terms and in the sense of ‘responding’ to something in the text that
tends to drop out of view.
Dekonstruksie werk met teks, maar ook met konteks. Die teks is vir Derrida meer as
net 'n geskrewe teks. “The concept of a text becomes metaphorically extended to
include persons, events and institutions” (Lötter 1995:96). Die dekonstruksie van 'n
teks, in enige vorm, sê Silverman (1989:4)
is concerned with offering an account of what is going on in the text –
not by seeking out its meaning, or its component parts, or its
systematic implications – but rather by marking off its relations to other
texts, its contexts, its sub-texts. It means that deconstruction accounts
for how a text’s explicit formulations undermine its implicit or nonexplicit
aspects. It brings out what the text excludes by showing what it
includes. It highlights what remains indecidable and what operates as
an indecidable in the text itself.