Also, one of the things that drew me to Derrida was that I'd heard he'd invented this technique called "deconstruction" where you find a binary opposition hidden in the core of a person's work and then show how the tension inherent in that dichotomy undermines their whole argument. That sounds like a helluva debater's trick, and I hope this whole inside/outside thing isn't an example of it, because here Derrida isn't unearthing a tacit dichotomy in Saussure so much as doing his damndest to read one in and then overreact to it.
Anyway patience, patience, I'm not even done with this section.
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