But there is another, more radical, consequence that can be drawn from our analysis. If the meaning associated with an expression is not present in the expression itself, and if the speaker must make his own presence felt by communication through words, then it follows that the speaker is never fully present in the act of using language. In other words, I am never present even to myself . Rather, it is language that speaks, not a unified and autonomous ego or self. One final note.
All experience depends on language.
Since, to have a language is to be part of a whole form of social life, there is no possibility of a private language. Therefore, all experience is social experience, i.e. there are no private experiences. Without this assumption, the slide into the de-centered self is not so easily motivated. Heidegger's notion of the de-centered self. One strategy would be to start by agreeing with Kant that we must have categories or concepts of some kind to organize human experience.