If we think about the structure of the mind, of thought, we will come across another example of how the language is schematized as Deconstruction claims: when we ponder over a word, even the most simple (women, for example), we are not seeing only the correlation between signifier and signified, we are loading the word with all our experiences, the social consideration about it, what has been taught to us, and the relations that have been built around it (“women” is the feminine gender, it has been oppressed for a long time -then, we jump onto the feminist current-, it is opposed to “men”, the masculine sex; and here, depending on our education, we would continue deliberating on sex relationships, religion rapprochements, natural distinctions, etc). And we do all this without a deep observation, unconsciously.
One of the aims of Deconstruction is to reflect upon this matter and to de-construct the internal links of our mental or textual structures.
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