ABSTRACT
In this paper I undertake a reading of Jacques Derrida’s concept of invention in his essay ‘Psyche: Invention of the Other’, and its focus on Francis Ponge’s poem ‘Fable’ as an exemplar of deconstruction’s inventiveness. I make an argument for time as a force that, in opening to difference, displaces truth, the subject, and narration, inventing a moment of the potential transformation of these conventional priorities.
