When a person thinks of the word transcend, do they think of it in the sense of language? Or the sense of time? What about spirituality? When the first thing that comes to your mind is language, then you may have cracked the code of Jacques Derrida's theory of Différance.
While reading through this text, I was confused, I assume like many others are. So I will not say that I have completely grasped what is being said in its entirety, but I will say that I have come up with a an idea that I feel is pretty relevant.
The first has to do with the word transcendence. In a short version of the word pertaining to spirituality, it is basically achieving a connection with all beings, or the presence/chakra/energy, etc; that are on this world. (this is just from the quick search I did on transcendence pertaining to spirituality.) The reason this is important, is because it ties into what Derrida is saying about differance (this is where its tricky so bare with me, I am not sure if it is difference or differance.)
This differance seems to be that which is the "creator" almost like a God, actually, to make it more simple, the earth would be the differance (the being which all comes from, or God, depending on your beliefs) Derrida says, "The latter, as we know, is always occupied with letting a supra essential reality go beyond the finite categories pf essay and existence, that is, of presence, and always hastens to remind us that, if we deny the predicate of existence to God, it is in order to recognize him as a superior, inconceivable, and ineffable mode of being." (Derrida, 282.) The earth has chakra, energy, etc; this is in the transcendent "world" just for this sake, and then there is the difference, which is like a medium.
I believe the medium is actually supposed to represent time and/or space, as in space and time have a chakra, but it is transcendent, and thats why we can't "see" it. difference is what is "used" to communicate between all of the different chakras on the earth (people, animals, etc.) Derrida refers to it as " weaving a web." (Derrida, 280.) This is then differentiated even more, by becoming text/language, which is really the ideas that are trying to be expressed through this difference. In other words, it's like a empire, where there is a base (the creator/king) and then through the chains of "communicating" or "differences" (people or things that are lower and communicate the "almighty message." I believe that, in my own words, differance itself is time, space, aura, or "presence." Then differance is that where everything is originating from, or "becoming." This ties into Locke's whole notion that the word is just a sign of the actual "meaning" or "idea".
I think that I have hit a bit traction with this, but still am not able to completely grasp everything, so let me know what you think.
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