(54) I am thinking, of course, of Jacques Derrida's discussion of the logic of
supplementarity. See his Writing and Difference, trans.
In other words, linguistic values are already founded upon an inherent linking of meanings and
supplementarity because language is so simply metaphorical.
Just so, The Parade then juxtaposes "incestuously fatherly" (167) feelings with three things: thematic, but also structural, "queerness," depicted quasi simultaneously through the theme of homosexual attraction; incessant play with language's so-called "logic of
supplementarity"; (59) and dramatic refusal of a straight narrative progression.
Although it is something of a false climax, in itself inconsequential for the immediate course of events, it is appreciable as a unique moment of natural
supplementarity, of inter-passivity and extended instantiation.
He demonstrates the centrality of this reconceptualisation to Derrida's work, as it grounds the idea of
supplementarity and the critique of logocentrism.
In keeping with his frontier ideology, his vision of total freedom from the collectivity and the state, Burroughs cheerfully enacted such
supplementarity as a narrator, defying conventional sign systems.
And there is no repetition possible without the graphics of
supplementarity, which supplies, for the lack of a full unity, another unit that comes to relieve it, being enough of the same and enough other so that it can replace by addition.
Gerry Smyth has argued that the Anglo-Irish occupied a position of "
supplementarity," allowing them to, as Joseph Lennon puts it, fill a "mediator role" between Irish peripheral culture and the English center (Lennon 255).
Because of its strange
supplementarity to society and politics, Parker advances, Lacanian clinic work can give rise to his subtitular revolutions in subjectivity.
Fortunately, the idea of
supplementarity of terms has endured in the UCC [section] 2-207.