The word (neologism) subjectile is used by Jacques Derrida to denote ‘that which lies between the surfaces of the subject and the object’ (Thévenin and Derrida, 1986). It is characteristic of Derrida's philosophical method that he tries to make the reader aware of the many, often shifting, meanings which key terms in texts possess, reveal and hide, by using his concepts (words) in a multifaceted and unstable manner (see Willmott, Chapter 5 in this volume, on poststructural thought in general). For instance, in the subjectile ‘the trajectories of the objective, the subjective, the projectile, of the interjection, the ...