Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 16:44:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Shaunanne Tangney <st-AT-scs.unr.edu>
Subject: Re: This Sex...


On Sun, 8 Oct 1995, Elizabeth Droppleman wrote:

> What about I's comments concerning, 
> 
> 	"that extremely ancient civilization [that] would undoubtedly 
> 	have a different alphabet, a different language..."?  (25)
> 
> Cixous, Chawaf and other "new" French feminists often describe ecriture 
> feminine  as a process which would allow for regression back to this 
> archaic space, by creating a different lang, etc.
> 	To what extent does the mention of this archaic space open up the 
> possibility of different (psycho)social dynamics or (il)logic?  It strikes 
> me as very utopian...but also promising...  It seems like Freud used this 
> space as one more example of woman as mystery, unknowable, 
> unrepresentable.  How does the Fre fem attempt to "recall" it 
> reproduce/create it?  and to what degree?  
> I think Butler could be useful here, but I can't make the connection right 
> now...  Thoughts, anyone? 
> 
> beth
> bdroppl-AT-grove.ufl.edu
> 
> PS:  shaunanne--could you give me the reference for the Butler quote on 
> Irigaray posted yesterday if you have it handy?  Thanks!
> 

sorry no big thoughts today (a day eaten up by tasks and small 
thoughts!0--but the butler i refered to is _gender trouble_ (routledge, 1990)

best,
shaunanne

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