Why I Fear Theory

From Barbara Johnson's A World of Difference:

Instead of a simple "either/or" structure, deconstruction attempts to elaborate a discourse that says neither "either/or", nor "both/and" nor even "neither/nor", while at the same time not totally abandoning these logics either. The very word deconstruction is meant to undermine the either/or logic of the opposition "construction/destruction". Deconstruction is both, it is neither, and it reveals the way in which both construction and destruction are themselves not what they appear to be.

Oy. I'm in trouble.