Do remedy pictures have an objective quality that allows us to avoid interpretation?
Despite the obvious interpretation the practitioner must make in deciding on a remedy, there is another level of uncertainty in this process, and that lies in the actual relationship between the original prover of the remedy and the interpreting process of the practitioner. Before I explain this, I would like to introduce one of the most important and yet disturbing insights of the Post-modernist movement, a form of analysis known as Deconstructivism, originally developed by a French philosopher called Jacques Derrida. Although he remains one of the most awesome iconoclasts of this century, and is exceedingly difficult to read, his main arguments can be summarised as follows. His work focuses on language and he contends that the traditional way of reading makes a number of false assumptions about the nature of texts. A traditional reader believes that language is capable of expressing ideas without changing them, that in the hierarchy of language writing is secondary to speech and that
