Fotografiar el perfume Authors Mara Negrón Universidad de Puerto Rico Abstract H. Cixous does not identify “Woman” with biological sex, not even with one gender, but with the “capacity to embrace the other”. So the writing which is open to alterity is “feminine”, even if the author is a man, because “a man-that-writes” is no longer a man, according to Cixous. However, Cixous led feminist literary theory, from 1975 onwards, to ponder the relationship between writing and the body, without using the sexual categories of man/woman. Taking Cixous's “Contes de la différence sexuelle” as a starting point, M. Negrón describes Cixous’s “writing in movement” as that which aims at an impossible objective, “photographing the perfume”, that is, exploring interiority, describing what cannot be described, saying what cannot be said. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-07-06 Issue No. 8 (2002): Psicoanàlisi i diferència sexual. Violència de gènere Section Dossier License The Author retains ownership of the copyright in this article, unless the opposite is expressed, and all rights not expressly granted in this agreement, including the nonexclusive right to reproduce, distribute, perform, and display the article in print or electronic form, and grants, Lectora: revista de dones i textualitat the exclusive rights to print publication of the Article for a period beginning when this Agreement is executed and ending twelve (12) months after the first publicaton of the work in this Journal. After this time, the work will be available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works license, by which the article must be credited to the Author and the Journal be credited as first place of publication. Beginning twelve (12) months after the article´s first publication, the Author is free to enter in seperate, additional contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the work as published in this journal. The Author is encouraged to post the work online (eg in institutional or subject repositories, or on their website) after the exclusivity period of twelve (12) months has expired, as it can lead to productive exchanges as well as a greater citation of the published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
