ABSTRACT
Derrida notes, rightly, that Husserl’s approach has significant consequences upon the notion of subjectivity. Given his conception of language, what is subjective, the certitude of inner experience, becomes ‘inaccessible to a direct, univocal, and rigorous language. Subjectivity is fundamentally ineffable’ (OG: 82). Since it is open only to the subject’s own inner-gaze, living consciousness is not merely in no need to be signified; it actually cannot be signified at all. For what we get is a notion of ‘private language’, precisely like the one Wittgenstein set out to resolve years later. Communication cannot convey ‘my own’ experience, and an Other’s experience is only presented to me by an irreducible mediation.1
