Kristeva - The border between the known and the otherness. “A jouissance which breaks the symbolic chain, the taboo, the mastery. A marginal discourse, with regard to the science, religion and philosophy of the polis (witch. child, underdeveloped, not even a poet, at best his accomplice … Kristeva Reader (154)
Kristeva - If a woman cannot be part of the temporal symbolic order except by identifying with the father, it is clear that as soon as she shows any signs of which, in herself, escapes such identification and acts differently, resembling the dream of the maternal body, she evolves into this ‘truth’ in question. It is thus that female specifity defines itself in patri-linear society: woman is a specialist in the unconscious, a witch, a bacchanalian, taking her jouissance in an anti-Apollonian, Dionysian orgy Kristeva Reader (154)
Cixous - The Laugh Of The Medusa.
“From afar, from always from “without” from the heath where witches are kept alive, from below, from “beyond” culture.” New French Feminisms (247)
Irigaray –‘femininity has been deciphered as forbidden’ Speculum of the Other Woman (20)
‘Woman is philosophies ‘other’ so interested in outsiders in history the hysteric the witch the medieval mystic those that stand outside culture
‘ex-stase’ meaning to stand outside –Irigaray’s word
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