Postmodernism theory itself exemplifies the allegorical structures it describes

Evidence

(It is perhaps worth observing, in passing, that the allegorical method evoked here is very much what is demanded and mobilized by the periodizing schema of the modernism/Postmodernism break as such. Here again, then, as so often, Postmodernism theory is itself an example of what it claims to anatomize: the newer allegorical structures are postmodern and cannot be articulated without the allegory of Postmodernism itself.) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 392

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A self-reflexive knot — the periodizing schema can only be articulated through the very method it defines — that bears directly on the reader’s falsifiability question.
• QUESTION: If the theory is itself an instance of its object, does this circularity undermine or strengthen the cultural-dominant thesis the reader wants to test?
• XREF: connects to: Postmodern theory holds that no one escapes culture’s ideological constructions — Marianne DeKoven, Utopia Limited: The Sixties and the…, 228