E. T. A. Hoffman: The Sandman
G. W. F. Hegel: Master/Slave Dialectic
Georges Bataille: Erotism
Michel Foucault: The Subject and Power
Stephen Greenblatt: Culture
Derrida: from Of Grammatology
"Writing would thus have the exteriority that one attributes to utensils; to what is even an imperfect tool and a dangerous, almost maleficent, technique....It is less a question of outlining than of protecting, and even of restoring the internal system of the language in the purity of its concept against the gravest, most perfidious, most permanent contamination which has not ceased to menace, even to corrupt that system..."
"Self-proclaimed language but actually speech, [is] deluded into believing itself completely alive, and violent, for it is not 'capable of protect[ing] or defending[ing] [itself]' except through expelling the other...."