La catastrofe del testo
The Catastrophe of the Text

Summary/Abstract: For Jacques Derrida, the autobiographical writing of the Confessions of J. J. Rousseau fills a void, comparing to an act of onanism, not directly according to nature. The text is catastrophe because it deceives and destroys nature, if the writing, the supplement, or the text introduces unnaturalness into life, in a narrative, autobiographical key. The writing does not close the circle of seduction, producing a text that is sufficient unto itself, because the text needs the other, the other one who is outside the text and who gives the text the status of a social, shared, existing object. I will try to demonstrate that all the things which are out of the text communicate with all the elements which stay inside the text. The catastrophe of the text becomes a strategic definition for describing the experimental processes of language, the same processes which circumvent the subjective censorship of autobiography and the objective censorship of history.

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