Will, Writing, Thinking

It seems uncontroversial that an act of writing on a sheet of paper involves Will, i. e. Motility. Now, perhaps the most significant of Derrida's innovative theses is that thinking 'in one's head' is a species of writing, which overturns the dogma that writing is a mere replication of thinking. This thesis entails, in particular, that the mental appearance of a symbol is accomplished by the mind's producing of it, rather than, as tradition has it, by an uncanny visitation. Thus, just as Motility is involved in the producing of a symbol on a piece of paper, Will is implicated in even the most abstract thought processes.