Helene Cixous
Helene Cixous
Hélène Cixousis a professor, Algerian/French feminist writer, poet, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and rhetorician. Cixous is best known for her article ''The Laugh of the Medusa'', which established her as one of the mothers of poststructuralist feminist theory. She founded the first centre of feminist studies at a European university at the Centre universitaire de Vincennes of the University of Paris...
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth5 June 1937
CityOran, Algeria
aspects deals paradoxes
Philosophically speaking, the whole show deals with different aspects of the paradoxes of hospitality,
totally
It is totally different from my philosophical work,
blind characters drama exactly natural nor people refined suffering supposed
The natural characters in the drama are not supposed to be philosophical, nor are they people with any refined kind of knowledge. They may be particularly blind or they may be suffering from the heaviness of the law, exactly as people have been suffering for 5000 years.
lambs feels greater-love
There is no greater love than the love the wolf feels for the lamb-it-doesn’t-eat.
mean desire ifs
If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
sleep sweat roots
What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I want to find the root of needing to eat. And taste it: work of sweat / sleep.
heart jail synagogue
in the synagogue of my heart... I myself jail and the jailed, I go wounded, bite-marked
life-and-death language said
It is said that life and death are under the power of language.
writing meditation needs
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
sick sickness worst
I am sick of death and worst of all this sickness feeds on itself, the more afraid I am the more I am afraid the more I flee the more I am afraid the more I am haunted.
love-is wake-up cannibal
Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
ideas language speak
... explore the idea of what the language that women speak would really be like if no one were there to correct them...
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name.
enough passages manage
Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.