Thursday, June 25, 2009

Let's look not at syntax but at fantasy, at the unconscious: all the feminine texts I've read are very close to the voice, very close to the flesh of language, much more so than masculine texts…perhaps because there's something in them that's freely given, perhaps because they don't rush into meaning, but are straightway at the threshold of feeling.  There's tactility in the feminine text, there's touch, and this touch passes through the ear.  Writing in the feminine is passing on what is cut out by the Symbolic, the voice of the mother, passing on what is most archaic.  The most archaic force that touches a body is one that enters by the ear and reaches the most intimate point.  This innermost touch always echoes in a woman-text.  I see it as an outpouring…which can appear in primitive or elementary texts as a fantasy of blood, of menstrual flow, etc., but I prefer to see as vomiting, as "throwing up," "disgorging," And I'd link this with a basic structure of property relations defined by mourning.

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