DeMan’s deconstructive system secretly relies on the self-consciousness it denies

Evidence

In DeMan, however, it persists as something like a ghostly “return of the repressed,” a misreading so powerful that even its denial reawakens it; and this is not the only peculiar survival of an older conceptuality in the “uneven development” of DeMan’s intensely postcontemporary system. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 539

Categorization

• QUESTION: Could test Jameson’s own ‘cultural dominant’ thesis the same way — does his totalizing system secretly rely on a privileged observer position he claims to have abandoned?
• XREF: connects to: The Freudian unconscious reintroduces a deceiver-deceived duality rather than explaining bad faith — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 282; DeMan posits metaphor as the cause rather than opponent of literal illusion — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 505; Freudian disguise mechanisms secretly require goal-directed consciousness they deny — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 288 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Freudian unconscious reintroduces a deceiver-deceived duality rather than explaining bad faith — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 282; DeMan posits metaphor as the cause rather than opponent of literal illusion — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 505; Freudian disguise mechanisms secretly require goal-directed consciousness they deny — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 288 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Freudian disguise mechanisms secretly require goal-directed consciousness they deny #corroborates (0.93) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 288