Abstract

Can one hope, then, to speak seriously of digest-ing Derrida's text? Shall this be a digestive tract? ;This writing is marginal--a writing the margins of philosophy. ;This writing purports to be about desire in the text of Derrida and Nietzsche, but a closer reading shows that it is the dis-lodging of the woman's card in the philosopher's text. Il n'y a pas de hors-texte. ;In the course of this story we see the treatment of desire linked to the question of the woman in place and time--questions which resist masculine feints at possession, and thus opens onto the possibility of sexual difference writing the text. The portrait of Derrida and Nietzsche which emerges is one wherein a man ;attempts to write loss: the loss of the woman infinitely deferred . . . but never the loss of desire. Et apres? ; -What to write now? Can you still write anything? ;-One writes with one's desire, and I am not through desiring. ; Roland Barthes