Language deconstruction

If what has been said so far about how to do deconstruction appear difficult to put into practice, this is precisely because of the impossibility at the heart of deconstruction which Derrida regards as an ordeal, and that we have to come through our own aporia in effect. Perhaps the first thing which has to be done is to effect a positive reorientation towards language and communication as problematic ... 

Derrida regards this problematisation of language as part of an affirmative ethos. One can at least begin the process of deconstruction by combining a direct reading of a text with an eye on what else and with an eye on the other. 

For those expecting to have found a template or a method for deconstruction, this chapter is likely to have disappointed, but I have attempted to show why providing such a thing would be wrong headed and unhelpful. Perhaps the only piece of useful advice, beyond the earlier enjoinder to view the problematic of language and communication as positive, might be to purloin a sporting motif Just do it. 

God, as Stephen realizes that language is not God-given but acquired, Finnegans Wake represents the fulfillment of this new deconstructed speech, which throws off the yokes of both the logos and imperial English. 

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