"Such is the strngth of women that,
sweeping away syntax,
breaking from the famous thread which
acts for men as a
surrogate umbilical cord...It is impossible
to define a
feminine practice of writing"
Cixous writes without structure or systems
she writes in circles and contradiction for the purpose of exposing
the inadequacy of our language; in doing so her essay itself becomes a
metaphor for the repression of which she speaks
since we cannot feasibly come up with a new language, we can only expose
the flaws that exist in our current language
only through awareness can we overcome the obstacles that are constructed
by a pallocentric discouse
it is impossible to deine a feminine practice of writing because this
practice can never be theorized, enclosed, coded
"it will always surpass the discourse that regulates the phallocentric
system; it doea and will take place in areas other than those subordinated
to philosophico-theoretical domination. It will be conceived of only be
those who are breakers of automatisms."
doesn't this just lead to small gaps, never really coming up against
the dominant issues head on but rather in a circuitous manner?