We in Short

Authors

  • Hélène Cixous Université Paris 8
  • Eva Llaràs (trad.)
  • Marta Segarra (trad.) Centre Dona i Literatura, Universitat de Barcelona

Keywords:

sexual difference, otherness, animal, dream

Abstract

This text combines theory and fiction, and reflects on the complexity of the individual and the constitution of it according to the other. Through the concept of sexual difference, gender –as a limit which supposedly separates the ego from the other and at the same time is inseparable from the “other”– is questioned. The metaphor of the animal is used as a reference to the other, and linked with sexuality, and also with dreams as telltale signs of human unconscious.

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Published

2010-07-14

Issue

No. 12 (2006): Feminismos del siglo XXI

Section

Dossier

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