In Tuesday’s lecture, Professor Doane explained Derrida’s idea that proper nouns can never do what it purports to do. I thought this concept was very intriguing, yet difficult for me to fully grasp. There is a desire expressed in a proper name, according to the inherent meaning the name possesses. A proper name aims to classify an individual as a unique being, but put in a system of differences, it loses that uniqueness it first aimed to convey. Does this mean a proper name cannot fulfill its purpose because it can never fully define the individual, although its purpose is to classify and differentiate one individual from another. Am I getting this at all? I wish to further comprehend this idea on proper names.