From: RaeVelvet-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:30:12 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Kristeva's chora


I've just begun reading Kristeva, and as I understand the chora, it is
aligned with Lacan's mirror stage, before entry into the symbolic, the Law,
etc.  But, she posits language, the "semiotic", into this pre-symbolic stage,
stating that the semiotic is repressed upon entry into the symbolic, but
recognizable in disruptions in language, namely silences,
contradictions....(elipses??)....  I seem to see some resemblance of the
chora, the untheorize-ability of it, to Lacan's REAL.  Does Kristeva align
the semiotic with the Real in any way?  Also, if anyone could shed light upon
the chora or ways to read the semiotic in language, I would much appreciate
it.

Merci, Rachel


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