The word 'Deconstruction' (Derrida 34) introduced by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida to demonstrate that any text is not a distinct whole but contains several irreconcilable elements and contradictory meanings; that each text therefore has more than one interpretation; that the text itself inextricably links these interpretations; that the incompatibility of these interpretations is irreducible; and therefore that an interpretative reading cannot go beyond a certain point. In psychological terms, the Other is nothing more than the unexplored territory of the Self. In the colonial enterprise, this territory of the unconscious is displaced onto another people who simultaneously seduce and terrorize. The colonizer, fearing to succumb to the Other, attempts to contain it through subordination, suppression or conversion. These containment strategies are designed to preserve the opposition and inequality between Self and Other that justifies the imperialist enterprise. The central trope of imperialism is what Abdul R. Janmohamed calls a “Manchean allegory” (Hena 13) that converts racial difference “into moral and even metaphysical difference.” (13) This allegory characterizes the relationship between dominant culture and subordinate culture as an ineradicable opposition. Although the opposing terms of the allegory change - good and evil, civilization and ferocity, intelligence and emotion, rationality and sensuality - they are always based on the assumption of the superiority of the external evaluator and the inferiority of the observed native. Colonialist literature, as a by-product of the imperialist enterprise, necessarily reinscribes Manichean allegory to conform to it or to interrogate it, in an effort to go beyond its limits. Consequently, the colonialist texts... at the center of the paper... its image is evident. Europe's idea of ​​itself was therefore based on its image of Africa. This means that every Other is a Self and every Self is an Other, depending on one's perspective. This contributes greatly to undermining the absolute distinction between Self and Other, essential to imperialist ideology. Works Cited Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. New Delhi: Penguin Publishers. 1975. Print.Hena. York Notes on Heart of Darkness. London: York Press.2001. Print.Hudson, Robert. Joseph Conrad: A Critical Study. New Delhi: Anmol Publications. 2006. Print.Ashcroft, Bill. Postcolonial studies: the key concepts. New York: Routledge Publishing. 2007. Print.Derrida, Jaques. Derrida and deconstruction. Ed. Hugh J. Silverman. New York: Routledge Publishing. 1989. Print. Said, Edward. Culture and imperialism. New York: Knopf Publishing House. 2012. Print