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AI image   Introduction: Deconstruction in the Shadows Jacques Derrida’s thought unfolds in the margins—those unstable zones where opposites lose their clarity and borders erode. His work on liminality, from Of Grammatology to La Vérité en peinture , seeks out what he calls “the fold” between inside and outside, the space where meaning trembles. In Restitutions de la vérité en pointure (1978), Derrida reflects on Van Gogh’s A Pair of Shoes , asking, “Where does the inside of a shoe begin, and where does it end?” The question displaces the expectation of a clear boundary: the shoe, marked by use, bears the trace of what it contains while remaining separate from it. It is neither wholly interior nor exterior but a threshold, a hinge between body and world. Such liminal spaces preoccupy Derrida. He repeatedly invokes figures of passage and exchange: the mouth, the ear, and other thresholds of the body, as well as zones such as doors, folds, or masks that both expose and conceal,...