Transgressing the philosophy-literature border: derrida's idea of metaphor

Derrida claimed that philosophy has traditionally positioned itself in an oppositional relationship to literature. According to this opposition, literature is evaluated in a secondary position compared to philosophy. Metaphor, as a literary movement, also retrieves its share from this secondary position. Therefore, it is understood as an external act and remains in the subsidiary status. Derrida tends to demonstrate this spesific boundary between philosophy and literature as fictional, rather than natural. Philosophy sets this limit in order to occupy a privileged position by excluding the literary movement within it. However, Derrida aims to illustrate the disruption in philosophy's attempt to occupy a privileged position, by focusing on the aspect of metaphor that causes transgression of the aforementioned boundary. Thus, according to Derrida, metaphor is understood as a founding movement that transgresses the philosophy-literature boundary and successfully binds both disciplines.