Love's Circumscriptions - the self in hide(ing) - : Surviving and Reviving the Truth
Authors
Leaman, MicheleAdvisors
Olthuis, James H.Affiliation
Institute for Christian StudiesIssue Date
2005-11Keywords
Derrida, JacquesDerrida, Jacques. Circumfession (1993)
Truth
Love in literature
Love
Irigaray, Luce
Self (Philosophy)
Bennington, Geoffrey
Cixous, Helene, 1937-
Cornell, Drucilla
Women
Feminism
Hooks, Bell
Bachmann, Ingeborg, 1926-1973. Malina : a novel (1990)
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I trace Jacques Derrida's notions of self and truth in Circumfession. This text paints a gruesome self-portrait depicting the inescapable violence of subjectivity. The self is born in blood. Derrida courageously confesses to being a casualty of this lovelessness. Similarly, exploring the depth of patriarchy's inscriptions requires facing the painful truth of my bleeding self. Investigating these wounds seems to reopen them, making me complicit in my own oppression. Drawing from the rich narrative of Ingeborg Bachmann's novel Malina, I allow feminists such as Helene Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Drucilla Cornell and bell hooks to engage Derrida's notions of the wounded and wounding self. Beginning in this bloody place, they attempt to write a way-out of the disempowering systems of subjectivity to which the female self seems confined. They write in order that love will bleed some light on the struggle for empowered female subjectivity, re-writing the self as a space of love rather than violence.Publisher
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