1. Derrida’s Concept of
Decentering the Centre &
Supplementarity
Name: Deepika Kuvadiya
Roll no.09(2011-12)
E-C-203:Literary Criticism
Submitted to
Department of Bhavnagar University
2. Decentering the Centre
• No presence or truth apart from Language
• Language is the free play of sign
• ‘A word is explained by another word which is
only a word not an existence’
3. There is no a-textual origin of a text.
Plan of Book is text,
Realization of book is another text,
And summary of the book is the third text.
4. Supplementarity
The absence of center of a origin is the
movement of Supplementarity.
The process of Supplementarity has no end.
The concept of Supplementarity flux.
5. We look for the truth of text which is infact
only a language, and than we create another
text of our Criticism to Supplement the lack
of Origin.
The meanings which are read may or may
not be the same which the Author
invested..
