MILENE RUST: 05/01/2012

Trace can be seen as an always contingent term for a "mark of the absence of a presence, an always-already absent present", of the ‘originary lack’ that seems to be "the condition of thought and experience". Trace is a contingent unit of the critique of language always-already present: “language bears within itself the necessity of its own critique”. Deconstruction, unlike analysis or interpretation, tries to lay the inner contradictions of a text bare, and, in turn, build a different meaning from that: it is at once a process of destruction and construction. Derrida claims that these contradictions are neither accidental nor exceptions; they are the exposure of certain “metaphysics of pure presence”, an exposure of the “transcendental signified” always-already hidden inside language. This “always-already hidden” contradiction is trace.

http://www.anintroductiontoawareness.com/Awareness/Introduction.html

http://books.google.co.za/books?id=aTmCtoMCsp0C&pg=PA157&lpg=PA157&dq=text+from+silence+of+the+lambs&source=bl&ots=Ugr7n9JFmg&sig=jZLGStrldkv-krWrsM6l6anP3O8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QjKmT_mMPIWmhAfJt-XLAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=text%20from%20silence%20of%20the%20lambs&f=false

http://www.amazon.com/Psyche-Text-Literature-Psychopathology-Psychoanalysis/dp/0791415708