http://blogs.doubt2.org/bookofdisquiet fernando pessoa (1888-1935) Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:52:45 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://blogs.doubt2.org/bookofdisquiet/?p=4&cpage=1#comment-2 annap Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:52:45 +0000 http://blogs.doubt2.org/bookofdisquiet/?p=4#comment-2 "On close inspection, all literature is probably a version of the apocalypse that seems to me rooted, no matter what its sociohistorical conditions might be, on the fragile border (borderline cases) where identities (subject/object, etc.) do not exist or only barely so—double, fuzzy, heterogeneous, animal, metamorphosed, altered, abject". According to Kristeva, literature explores the way that language is structured over a lack, a want. She privileges poetry, in particular, because of poetry's willingness to play with grammar, metaphor and meaning, thus laying bear the fact that language is at once arbitrary and limned with the abject fear of loss: "Not a language of the desiring exchange of messages or objects that are transmitted in a social contract of communication and desire beyond want, but a language of want, of the fear that edges up to it and runs along its edges". http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/kristevaabjectmain.html “On close inspection, all literature is probably a version of the
apocalypse that seems to me rooted, no matter what its sociohistorical
conditions might be, on the fragile border (borderline cases) where
identities (subject/object, etc.) do not exist or only barely
so—double, fuzzy, heterogeneous, animal, metamorphosed, altered,
abject”. According to Kristeva, literature explores the way that
language is structured over a lack, a want. She privileges poetry, in
particular, because of poetry’s willingness to play with grammar,
metaphor and meaning, thus laying bear the fact that language is at
once arbitrary and limned with the abject fear of loss: “Not a
language of the desiring exchange of messages or objects that are
transmitted in a social contract of communication and desire beyond
want, but a language of want, of the fear that edges up to it and runs
along its edges”.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/psychoanalysis/kristevaabjectmain.html

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