In structuralism , we discovered the theory of a linguistic structure which binds all of our cultural production, but this notion came under continued scrutiny for some of its flawed principles. These critiques of structuralism began to form new ways of looking at and thinking about the textual. One such theory is post-structuralism also known as deconstruction. Jacques Derrida Just as structuralism is not purely a literary theory, neither is deconstruction. The textual is not solely the writing we are looking at, but also the entire way we experience the world. Post-structuralism is rather difficult to pin down and is arguably not even theory at all. For the most part, we can consider both post-structuralism and deconstruction as the same theory, and the existence of both terms emerged out of critics arguing over which was more accurate. Jacques Derrida was not happy with the term "post-structuralism" as he believed, whilst his theory concerned structures, it was ...