Discoursing with an ancient sacred text

This blog is a philosophical exploration of the Song of Songs. My project explores a Cixousian (écriture féminine) encounter with biblical literature along subjective existential lines. In particular I am exploring life, meaningfulness, encounter and freedom as these contradict death, absurdity, separation and oppression. This discourse with the Song of Songs & other biblical texts seeks the critical moment that sparks transformation in the present.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Stigmata (1998, London: Routledge, xiv)

"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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