Christine Angot: a hetero-homosexual and incestuous woman Authors María Jos Palma Borrego Keywords: mother-daughter, incest, separation, refraction, hetero-homosexual Abstract The aim of Christine Angot in her literary project L’inceste (1999) is not to reveal her incestuous savvy –she denies her book to be an autobiography– but to disclose a most repressed feature of our Culture, utterly hidden but an essential root of it: the incest with the mother. The daughter mother incest can be real or imaginary, and the literary work discloses it and shapes its multiple nuances, ranging from the desire of merging with the mother, most typical of a pre-Oedipus complex stage, to the homosexual relationship with her narcissist twin or the incestuous longing for her own daughter. It is a world without castration, where anything is possible in a game of “being” and “not being”, where the issue of incest is presented as a vertical, from the top to the bottom, gene rational, mother-daughter relation –Christine and Léonore– and a horizontal relation –Christine and Marie Christine. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2010-09-30 Issue No. 14 (2008): Maternitat a l'islam Section Miscellaneous 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).
