ABSTRACT
The relation of alterity, the unconscious, and the text are what perhaps make up this tracing; but to investigate this at all involves exposing both literature and psychoanalysis to deconstructive effects. This implies the sort of irrecuperable processes that Jacques Derrida finds in Maurice Blanchot's title Arret de mort:Arreter, in the sense of suspending, is suspending the arret in the sense of decision. There are 'destructive discourses' which stand in an important relationship to Derrida's work: Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of metaphysics, Sigmund Freud's critique of self-presence, Martin Heidegger's critique of onto-theology. His own repositioning consists in restating these critical texts so that they display effects which are not determined or produced by the system of metaphysics they oppose. There are certain quite didactic and exemplary moments in Derrida's writing where deconstruction is worked on a small scale as an operative demonstration.
