Deconstruction is not easy to understand. As Derrida explains, "What deconstruction is not? everything of course. What is deconstruction? nothing of course" (Derrida, 1988, p. 5). Of his neologism differance, with an acute accent over the first e, he will write that it is neither a name nor a concept. Derrida specifically warns against reducing the idea of deconstuction to a definition or a formula. As Derrida writes,
All sentences of the type "deconstruction is x" or "deconstruction is not x" a priori miss the point, which is to say that they are at least false. As you know, one of the principal things at stake in what is called in my texts "deconstruction" is precisely the delimiting of ontology and above all of the third person present indicative: S is P. (Derrida, 1988, p. 4)