What actually is a deconstruction? What are some examples?

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>>9234651
Evangelion

>>9234651

It used to just mean "breaking something down and analyzing it until you fully understand what it is"

now its some loopy postmodern term where you imitate something in a humorous fashion to "deconstruct it"

Tortilla Soup.

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>pic didn't upload for whatever reason

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>>9234769
But this is a question that directly pertains to literature.

Every major text has it.

>>9234651

From what I've read about Derrida:

>language is a closed system of signifiers that only refer to other signifiers
>attaching meaning is an arbitrary exercise of power
>deconstruction is a response to this
>one way to deconstruct something is:
>1. look at dualities that lie at the fundamentals of a work/in our life (male/female for example)
>2. reverse the typical privilege of one over the other (in typical feminist thought, usually male over female)
>3. show that this too is an illusion (since gender is an arbitrary social and historical construct)
>therefore the duality is just a construction used to rationalize power or something

>>9234778
>please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.
You're really pissing me off right now. Oh, if I could see you in real life I'd swing my aluminum bat to your dome so hard over and over that you'll no longer be recognizable and your brains will be splattered every which way.

>>9234853
>>language is a closed system of signifiers that only refer to other signifiers
but that's wrong

>>9234651
Compare the Eric Andre Show to other late night shows

not literature related which is another deconstructionception