Stigmata chapter 9 – writing blind, conversations with a
donkey. P184-203.
Translated by Eric Prenowitz.
Translated by Eric Prenowitz.
And ICA VIDEO –uca library 809CIX Helene Cixous play writer.
Cixous is concerned with ‘the Self and other’ of everybody.
autobiographies of writing, sexual difference, literary theory, post colonial
theory, life and death. She is a linguistic receptor of the scribe. She has a
feminist background. French post-structuralism.
She sees the journey
as a passage to making an object more important than the object itself. Theme in her work are; human intimacy,
tragedy, echoes of issues, conflicts, repression, justice and injustice. The
victim, the accused separation and separation in couples.
She plays on the maternal, writes about creative process,
the invisible part that is inside her body.
There is the Notion of undermining closure- there is always
more to say.
She coined the word ‘Poetico” philosophical questions.
The internal space, inner dynamics. Abstract texts. This
text is about thinking and the nature of creativity and methodological
approach. This text is like an abstract expressionist automatic drawing.
She says:
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Giving a title is like an act of appropriation.
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Feelings are entrails with turmoil before turned
into a name.
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Her business is to translate our emotions into
writings… first she feels then she writes.
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Her phone is her ‘donkey’ the barer of thought.
An instrument that allows a conversation between two distant people.
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‘INTERNITY’ a word she made up. Is like a
genetic miracle, words crossbreeding, clandestine semantics. A new born word
out of the love for two words.
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Her books exercise the right to invention and
the right to research.
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She denies analysis.
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She says its important to express ourselves in
our own codes.
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Otherness and difference.
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The self is not individualistic it is us! We all
share a part in being human.
“The sense of the RIDICULOUS is a liberty, it can be
enjoyed when you have no constraints”…
