SUBJECTIVITY IN WRITING FROM FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE TO PAUL DE MAN.

The paper deals with the problem of subjectivity in autobiographical writing, that is, in the form of writing where the subject and the self of the writer de nomine manifest themselves most. The formal feature that distinguishes autobiography from other texts is the reference field that is not included in what is talked about, but rather in who is speaking. This leads to an interconnection between the subject, whose signature is attached to the work, and the second subject, who can be encountered in the work. Solution to this problem can be found in Ferdinand de Saussure's comment about relationship between language and writing in his Course in General Linguistics, which, taking into account the specific character of writing systems, brings us to the evident conclusion that all reading and even writing is only an interpretation. This approach can be found in The Rhetoric of Romanticism by the American deconstructivist Paul de Man. In de Man's theory, autobiography moves the subject to a position in which it cannot be easily grasped. With its character, it crosses the borders of utilitarian and even poetic discourse, which is a place suitable neither to preserve nor to confirm the authenticity of the subject. Much more it is a play which reveals that writing/reading is a process where a certain type of identity simultaneously disappears and arises. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]