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On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism

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In this article, the authors discuss readers and reading and deconstructive critical criticism. But their focus is on the reader and reading as a woman, and not on the critic.
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Preface to New Edition. Preface to First Edition Introduction Chapter 1: Readers and Reading 1. New Fortunes 2. Reading as a Woman 3. Stories of Reading Chapter 2: Deconstruction 1. Writing and Logocentrism 2. Meaning and Iterability 3. Grafts and Graft 4. Institutions and Inversions 5. Critical Consequences Chapter 3: Deconstructive Criticism Bibliography. Index

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Towards justice and care : deconstructing stories of personhood and patienthood

TL;DR: In this article, the authors use the theory of deconstruction to reflect on some discourses that underlie the practices of psychology and psychiatry, with specific emphasis on their practical implications in the interactions between therapists and patients in real life psychotherapeutic situations.
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Against “reading”: Text and/as other in John Fowles’ the French lieutenant's woman

TL;DR: In this paper, the French lieutenant's woman in John Fowles' "The French Lieutenant's Woman" is compared to the French woman in the book "Against'reading'": text and/or as other in this paper.
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On fact and fiction—the structure of stories that the brain tells to itself about itself

TL;DR: For instance, the authors argue that self-perception as both subject and object enables an observer to become a narrator whose narrative reflects the nature of brain processes and man as a structure of the fiction he tells to himself about himself.