Helene Cixous
Helene CixousEcriture feminine is a model of writing which allows feminine desire and the language of the body.
Ecriture feminine is an energizing myth, an antithesis of masculine writing, a means of escape.
A Feminine reading practice of reading is reading in such a way that, in order to read, we need to get out of the text. We have to shuttle back and forth incessantly. We have to try all possible relations with a text. At some point, we have to disengage ourselves from the text as a living ensemble.
The Reader is, who is a real reader, is a writer. A real reader is already on the way to writing.
Reading is a form of writing... an activity whereby we either tame a text or we are swallowed up by it, as by a whale.
Reading is a liberating and transgressive experience, one in which it is possible to step outside and exceed the boundaries of the dominant masculine order.
Reading is either a matter of taming a text, riding on it, rolling over it, or being swallowed up by it, as by a whale.
Reading is about adopting a non-defensive, non-resisting relationship with the thousands of possible relations of a text. Only then are we carried off by it.
Reading is a matter of getting out of the text. We have to shuttle back and forth incessantly. We have to try all possible relations with a text. At some point, we have to disengage ourselves from the text as a living ensemble.
Woman is that which unthinks the unifying regulating history that homogenizes contradictions. She is an integral part of all liberations.
Writing only truly comes to life when a dialogue or interchange is established with the act of reading.
