Let’s be frank, deconstruction is in fact a ‘construction’ of a post-modernist, socialist/communist ideology from the mind of Jaques Derrida. It is not possible to deconstruct literary texts in order to reach some fundamental understanding or truth that Jaques already believes apriori to be axiomatic and causal on human nature. Why, because Jacques’ ‘hammer and sickle’ tinted spectacles were in fact his ‘subjective and personal’ view on the World, no more relevant than anyone else’s subjective view.

Subjective implies context and all contextual components to a particular perception or cognitive process are impossible to fully identify, weigh up and consider in effectiveness if considered from a wholly left-brain reductionist activity named ‘Deconstruction’. Such philosophical ramblings completely miss the true nature of observable Gestalt (a form of holism) in perception and cognition. The ‘whole is greater than the sum of the parts’. If you reduce everything down to deconstructed components you won’t find the whole or the meaning because it is not inherent in the component ‘things you are looking at’, because in themselves, they are nothing. The meaning or truth emerges because the Gestalt is derived in the spaces between components, due to their relatedness to each other and then at a higher order of magnitude, cognitively, in one’s brain as a relation to you the observer. The observer here is an ACTIVE PARTICIPANT in making the implicit explicit, and not some passive onlooker reflexively reacting to external stimuli. The Gestalt at this point here is in fact the ‘elephant in the room’!

Maurice Merleau Ponty’s philosophy was grounded in biology. The biological human underpins the cognitive human and as such Piaget’s Structuralism of applying the same theories for basic structures and functions to those in increasingly high orders of magnitude such as thinking and intelligence, bridge the gap from biology to cognitive psychology, but are also fundamentally ‘grounded’ and supportive of Merleau Ponty’s ‘phenomenology of perception’. This can be the only way to proceed on any theory of Mind.