"I want stigmata. I don't want the stigmata to disappear. I am attached to my engraving, to the stings in my flesh and my mental parchment. I do not fear that trauma and stigma will form an alliance: the literature in me wants to maintain and reanimate traces."
Cixous compares stigmata to stigma (antisemitism), and to the stigma of the flower. In the botanical stigma she senses recreation, resurrection.
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