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“That is to say that at the heart of existence is that double negation, “one can not, not.”

Life Fate Persistence Determinism

Book:Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

“The poet must rethink her writing activities in such a way as to désoublier (to unforget), détaire (to unsilence), déterrer (to unbury), se désaveugler (to unbind), se dessourdier (to undeafen), in an endeavor to displace all that has been repressed, incorporated, appropriated. This is the poet’s way of fighting.”

Writing Poetry Fighting Freedom Poets Displacement Reclamation

Book:Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

“Reading then is writing, in an endless movement of giving and receiving: each reading reinscribes something of a text; each reading reconstitutes the web it tries to decipher, but by adding another web. One must read in a text not only that which is visible and present but also the nontext of the text, the parentheses, the silences.”

Writing Reading Language Theory Analysis Texts Deciphering

Book:Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

“In reality, myth was that which took the place of analysis in former times. … It showed that there was the universe, but one knew that there was also something else. One knew that something stronger than the social existed.”

Reality History Society Myth Theology Meaning Analysis

Book:Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine

Source: Hélène Cixous: Writing the Feminine