forgiving can never be finished or concluded – must always be open, like a permanent rupture, or a wound that refuses to heal.

There is hence a sense in which forgiving must also remain outside oF and juridical rationality. 

unconditional ‘forgiveness’ explicitly precludes the necessity of an apology or repentance by the guilty party, 

tHERE IS  a more conditional forgiveness where apologies are actually demanded. 

However,  this conditional forgiveness amounts more to amnesty and reconciliation than to genuine forgiveness 

 Derrida’s discussions of forgiving are orientated around revealing a fundamental paradox that ensures that forgiving can never be finished or concluded – it must always be open, like a permanent rupture, or a wound that refuses to heal.