[D66] Invagination

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Invagination (philosophy)
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In Continental philosophy, the term invagination is used to explain a
special kind of metanarrative. It was first used by Maurice
Merleau-Ponty[1] (French: invagination) to describe the dynamic
self-differentiation of the 'flesh'. It was later used by Rosalind E.
Krauss and Jacques Derrida ("The Law of Genre", Glyph 7, 1980); for
Derrida, an invaginated text is a narrative that folds upon itself,
"endlessly swapping outside for inside and thereby producing a structure
en abyme".[2] He applies the term to such texts as Immanuel Kant's
Critique of Judgment[2] and Maurice Blanchot's La Folie du Jour.[3]
Invagination is an aspect of différance, since according to Derrida it
opens the "inside" to the "other" and denies both inside and outside a
stable identity.[4]