deconstruction
Pronunciation: /diːk(ə)nˈstrʌkʃ(ə)n/
Definition of deconstruction
noun
Deconstruction focuses on a text as such rather than as an expression of the author’s intention, stressing the limitlessness (or impossibility) of interpretation and rejecting the Western philosophical tradition of seeking certainty through reasoning by privileging certain types of interpretation and repressing others. It was effectively named and popularized by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida from the late 1960s and taken up particularly by US literary critics
Origin:
late 19th century (originally in the general sense 'taking to pieces'): from de- (expressing reversal) + construction