Thesis Statement 7 examples

Rene Girard, "Triangular Desire"--The Imprisoned Subject
Creators of great literary works impose on their characters and influencing mechanism from their own milieu: governing human judgement and the perspective that guides it is a figure--systematic, fundamental and
primitive--that "mediates"--instills, warps or obviates--the otherwise direct or spontaneous desire between subject and desired object, giving the subject new, spontaneous objects to covet that he/she wouldn't have coveted before, reshaping his/her desire for the object, or removing it from his/her sight altogether.
Tie-in thesis for Derrida: Similar to Girard's mediator, Derrida introduces us to an ideological influence--and an interpretive quagmire--that gives rise to the discourse of binary oppositions. --Mike

Derrida contests Saussure's statement about signifiers and signifieds by arguing that there is no final signified, as each signified is itself a signifier, therefore in deconstruction there is no reference to a fixed subject or final origin, thus making meaning ultimately undecidable.--Jerry

(“Derrida and Deconstruction”--Sarup)
Jacques Derrida believes that traditional Western thought depends upon illusive metaphysical
hierarchies, such as subject/ object, signifier/ signified, representation/ presence, etc., where one opposing term is considered superior to another; Derrida argues that the undervalued terms of these hierarchies can only be affirmed as another equally
important form of the “higher” ones; thus, in his criticism, he deconstructs the text being analyzed by overthrowing the core principle underlying the argument.--Iana

Derrida refutes structuralists' claim that a text is/can be "a bearer of stable meanings" and that the critic can be a successful "seeker after the truth in the text"; he claims instead that texts are inherently unstable, breaking down just as they are being constructed.--Melissa

Derrida's theory of language rests on the assumption (and not an unfounded one) that human cognition and self-awareness stems from the use of language itself--If this is true, then signifiers must only refer to other signifiers, as they are the necessary components, "building blocks" of thought processes, and no "signifieds" or non-linguistic concepts can possibly be communicated using the closed system of symbolic language--but if human cognition has another souce, or multiple sources, Derrida's theory fails.--JiM