Dear all,
When we analyse our data with the help of thematic analysis so we follow six steps namely.. 1. becoming familiar with data, 2. generating initial codes, 3. searching for themes, 4. reviewing themes, 5. naming themes, 6. writing report..
I want to understand deconstruction analysis method in this sense.. that every step should be clear.. Kindly share your ideas or suggest good reading material to understand it.
I appreciate your participation.
Deconstruction is pioneered by the French philosopher and theoretician Jacques Derrida. It is mainly based on his idea of `Differance` which stands for the instability or elusiveness of meaning. It may be considered as a revolution against previous literary theories of structuralism and new criticism in the sense of criticizing the existence of `a centre` in the text. In fact, what is at stake as far as deconstruction is concerned is the existence of meaning gaps or `aporia` in the text. Hence, the role of the reader, namely the deconstucter is to find out these gaps and use them as tools to deconstruct or `subvert from within` the very claim the text attempts to affirm. Consequently, a deconstructive reading is based on the following steps:
1-close reading of the text (find thesis statement)
2-find out and identify the gaps of the text (aporia/ binary oppositions like white is better than black/ prejudices, stereotypes/ slips of tongue...etc
3-Write a criticism about the text based on deconstructing the essential meaning it tries to assert by showing that certain signifiers have other or different signifieds: in this way you construct new meanings for the text because deconstruction is not destruction.
Finally, I recommend reading in parallel other concepts invented by Gilles Deleuze including `deterritorialization`, `reterritorialization`, `rhizome`...etc and especially his book Difference and Repetition.
For further readings about deconstruction you can refer to:
-Deconstruction
Author: Christopher Norris
-On Deconstruction : Theory and Criticism After Structuralism
Author: Culler, Jonathan D.
-For concepts definitions you can use:
Sim, Stuart, ed. The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1998.
Dear Dr Wolfgang,
Thank you for the invaluable references you mentioned about deconstruction. Please any English translation of Peter V. Zima, Die Dekonstruktion??
Any English translation of Peter V. Zima's Die Dekonstruktion? Pls send the link...
I believe that the prerequisite to understand and apply the theory of deconstruction of Derrida, is to understand the nature of language as explained by Saussure and his followers. I think it makes a way for Derrida too to build upon his revolutionary way of analyzing any phenomenon.
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