"Sexual différance": Writing and Sexual Diferences in Jacques Derrida’s Thought

Abstract

“Perhaps because where there is voice, sex becomes undecided” – this is the enigmatic sentence that Jacques Derrida leaves us in a correspondence dated of 1982, entitled “Voice II”, from which I will try to highlight how Derrida’s thought of writing as archi-writing and/or différance, as well as the approach of another feminine thought besides the binomial masculine-feminine, allow us to think differently the so-called “sexual difference” (dually and oppositionally determined) in terms of sexual differences, namely from the undecidable dynamic of what is referred, in the same text, as the “truth of sexual différance”.