16.11.07

Helene Cixous: Live Theory


Cixous's 'ecriture feminine' changed everything for writing. This book published in 2004 by Ian Blyth and Susan Sellers introduces her work and life and interplays each against the other 'a-bouncingly' that resinates both ways...creating work that is theory and not theory at the same time...
Her emphasis is on poetic writing not being on the destination but about 'the illumination that is the journey'. Cixous' work moves away from gender-specific formulations, instead emphasizing a particular libidinal economy... one that creating a writing that avoids both appropriation and annihilation.
I'm wondering now what is beyond feminine ecriture and Language what intertextualities are coming through now especially since the shift from Lacan to Melanie Klein. Blogs of course are intertextual!

Helene Cixous, from her essay "The Laugh of the Medusa":

I shall speak about women's writing: about what it will do. Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies -- for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Women must put herself into the text -- as into the world and into history -- by her own movement.


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