Derrida and Deconstruction by Silverman Hugh J.;

Author:Silverman, Hugh J.; [HUGH J. SILVERMAN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

Columns notched on the side, etched, tattooed, incrusted to supplement strength, for power and sexual pleasure…for ‘jouissance féminine’—if one could say that such a thing still exists in a generalized fetishism which makes the opposition of feminine and masculine oscillate. Because: ‘tattoos are also like the carving of precious stones, cut like the ones the Dayaks of Borneo put in after an incision on the surface of the penis to increase female sexual pleasure. ’ And if this is the final end of all this machinery, this ceremony, it would be the very inversion of Freud’s ends—the inversion of phall-ogocentrism’s aim to subordinate women’s sexuality to men and their desires. At first, in Glas, the columns are not smooth and intact, they are not ornamented afterwards, they are not broken into like the phallic columns from India which open and close the Hegelian procession in Glas, where notches, excavations, openings, hollowings, holes, deep lateral marks unexpectedly appear on columns which originally could not be cut into. Glas also tolls for the end of the limit between a column and its ornamentation, its parerga, its balconies, its fluted edges. There are such columns on the brothel in Genet’s Balcony—each column is a fake, concealing peepholes, corridors, balconies.

What relationships are maintained between these two columns which can appear—here a metaphysical vision—opposed; setting up one against the other, not communicating; like the antagonism between feminine and masculine, literature and philosophy? But they are not in opposition; they are heterogeneous. Generalized fetishism does not lead to either sexual or textual non-differentiation: a column does not speak the language of the other, obeys neither the same rhythm nor the same law; they differ from one another as the galactic from the dialectic; they are like two colossal towers erected in double solitude, without any apparent connection. They are not opposed but heterogeneous, they communicate between themselves. Because these columns are not yet cut into, because they are double, oblique, because there are peepholes, they establish between them a series of exchanges, winks of an eye— they bind together and unbind in passing. They penetrate each other: every penetration suspends opposition (because no substantial opposition can be found). Particularly, sexual opposition finds itself compromised in this agglutination, infatuation, coupling of sexes, texts, and terms. ‘Each term divided in two adheres to the other, coupling in a passionate manner, drunk as a bellringer at his hanging rope’: it is the effect of the Gl (paste, glue, spit, sperm, chrism, unguent forms the unidentifiable conglomeration of this ceremonial), moreover, the general law of the equivalence of terms, of opposites which continuously change places where:

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