WouldntULike2Know- 4/10

Last Thursday's class really helped me to understand what the heck Derrida was talking about. What I found most poignant was how we as humans crave understanding meanings. In striving for the Ur, we actually defeat what we are striving for in our attempts to attain it. Like the lost civilization, the meaning that we are searching for gets lost too. I wonder too, that in trying to understand the very complicated work of Differance, if through breaking down Derrida's impossible explantions (of which, I didn't really understand in the first place to be honest) if the actual meaning behind his intention gets erased--as he describes through the process of his own writing? If what Derrida is saying is true, how then are we communicating. Its miraculous that we all understand what everyone is saying---or even that they themselves know what they are saying! This made me think about De Saussure's notion of how everything is understood only though the simultaneous presence of other known terms. But how do we understand those terms in the first place? I certainly didnt understand what Derrida was saying until Dr. Casey broke it down--and thus, made me question if I have ever fully understood what I am saying ever?