In my conference I will demonstrate that a precise and selective reading of Derrida's texts can transcends their supposedly obscurity and paradoxes in order to stimulate the critical analysis, at the same time that it throws light to the interrelated mechanisms between ethical and personal signifiers of the different characters of the works under our study.  

In the first part of my conference "¡Hijos sí, maridos no! La agencialidad de la mujer en las películas de Almodóvar," I apply the derridean concepts regarding "cultural performance" and "iterability" in order to explicate how the films of Pedro Almodovar (1951) – from his first Pepi, Luci y Bom y otras chicas del montón (1978), to his last Volver (2006), animate Spanish women to become independent from the "phallogocentrism " as it is imposed by Western culture. The humorous but radical solution of Pedro, el Manchego, is that women must get rid of their husbands in any way possible, including homicide.  

In the second part of the conference "La vida es sueño. Construcciones de historia y de herencia", I will revisit the canonical work of Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), applying to the character analysis the derredean concept of "inheritance". Through this concept one can transcends the traditional critical interpretation that reads the calderonian text as a typical work of the Spanish Golden Age, which discusses themes such as monarchy, honor, lies and honesty, the shortness of life and moral salvation, and the spiritual life. Reading the text from a derredean focus point one can transcend the philosophical/religious interpretation reduced to that epoch, which occupied itself to the problems of freedom, human free will, education, pride and humility, and the specific themes of the fallacy of the argument of predestination. With Derrida's ideas, finally one can determine the character's reality as more universal and less transcendental that represents the human being as a unique established link in the ontological genealogy; interrelated and inherited, which gives faith to our existence in the world.