Re: Chora/Khora

Thanks for this useful information. I will almost certainly follow up these
leads.

Stuart

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From: Clare O'Farrell <c.ofarrell@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: foucault@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 04:06
Subject: Re: Chora/Khora


>The chora appears is Kristeva's book _La Revolution du langage poetique.
>L'avant garde a la fin fu XIXe siecle. Lautreamont et Mallarme_ Paris
>Seuil, 1974. The first part is translated into English as Wynship points
>out as _Revolution in Poetic Language_ New York, Columbia UP, 1984
>She explains chora in psychoanalytic terms.
>
>It is a very difficult text I have only read it in French and don't know
>how much is missing from the English edition, but for a very useful
>introduction to all of Kristeva's work see John Lechte, _Julia Kristeva_,
>Routledge, 1990. This is what he says about the chora (p.128) following
>Kristeva
>
>'The chora is a kind of place, or receptacle. It is not easy to make this
>element intelligible because it is not, strictly speaking, representable.
>What may be represented, conceptualized, thought of, imagined, made clear
>and explicit, and is above all a product of reglementation and order, is
>part of the symbolic order or simply, the symbolic. the ego and its
>narcissism are part of the symbolic. To speak about the chora at all is
>paradoxical, given that to do so is to give it a place in the semiotic. The
>chora is a mobile and 'extremely provisional articulation constituted by
>movements and their ephemeral stases' (Kristeva 1984,p.25) The chora is a
>semiotic, non geometrical space where drive activity is 'primarily'
>located.'
>
>clare
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