Is There a Level of Immediacy Between Words and Their Meanings?

For a long time we have assumed that there is a level of immediacy between words and their meanings that just doesn't exist. To jacques derda, if you were trying to locate where the meaning of a word lies, the meaning of word is always what he calls non present or deferred. And this phonocentric approach has allowed thinkers throughout history to persist in a delusion that the intention of an author somehow grounds the ultimate meanings of the words once agai. We're going to talk about it in a couple of episodes, but there 're things we need to talk about before that, so that this makes sense.