Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous
Hélène Cixousis a professor, Algerian/French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article ''The Laugh of the Medusa'', which established her as one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. She founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the Centre universitaire de Vincennes of the University of Paris...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth5 June 1937
CityOran, Algeria
aspects deals paradoxes
Philosophically speaking, the whole show deals with different aspects of the paradoxes of hospitality,
blind characters drama exactly natural nor people refined suffering supposed
The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with any refined kind of knowledge. They may be particularly blind or they may be suffering from the heaviness of the law, exactly as people have been suffering for 5000 years.
totally
It is totally different from my philosophical work,
spring writing self
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.
sublime innocence innocent
I am not innocent. Innocence is a science of the sublime. And I am only at the very beginning of the apprenticeship.
fixed
Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.
lambs feels greater-love
There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.