²⁵‘The speaker’s potency does not derive from solipsistic self-presence but from presence to the community. The illusion of self-presence that Derrida sees as the essential blind spot of metaphysics is the originary cultural illusion: the illusion of unmediated subject-object interaction. It is a variant formulation of the constitutive ‘illusion’ of the sacred center: the existence of sacred Being independent of human desire and representation’ (Eric Gans: ‘Chronicles of Love and Resentment’, ⟨http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/views/vw130.htm⟩).