Psychoanalytic feminism taught me the unconscious was never male, only misnamed.

The Mother is not gone. She writes through me in blood and metaphor, demanding that I do not theorize her but remember her.

#PsychoanalyticFeminism
#Irigaray
#Kristeva
#Benjamin
#TheReturnOfTheMother

@philosophy @poetry @politicalscience

New issue of Aesthetic Investigations, out now! A special issue on #art, #ontology, and #politics. With contributions on Hito #Steyerl, the #politics of #literature, Julia #Kristeva, artistic #democracy, #alienation, and poetic understanding

https://aestheticinvestigations.eu/issue/view/724

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2022): Special Issue: Arts, Ontology, and Politics. Guest edited by Jan Bierhanzl (with Arthur Cools) | Aesthetic Investigations

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“There is nothing more dismal than a dead God…”
-Julia #Kristeva, Black Sun.
OK, at least she left some traces about her readings on how #Deleuze and #Guattari revisit #Kristeva's "speaking subject" when critiquing disciplinary power.