Derrida defines deconstruction as a “decentering” process in which the central locus of a structure, that which gives it meaning, coherence and presence, has been disrupted and has become a “nonlocus in which an infinite number of sign-substitutions come into play…Derrida means that there is no actual “presence” of meaning in a text, because the symbols can no longer be identified with the original meaning. In the act of writing, the author’s intention (indeed his very presence) has been “expelled” from the autonomous text, which now “plays” in whatever interpretive playground the reader brings to it.
Grant Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral (Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2006), 483.
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