Where is she?
Activity/passivity,
Sun/Moon,
Culture/Nature,
Day/Night,
Father/Mother,
Head/heart,
Intelligible/sensitive,
Logos/Pathos,
Form, convex, step, advance, seed, progress.
Matter, concave, ground - which supports the step, receptacle.
Man
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Woman
Always the same metaphor: we follow it, it transports us, in all its forms, wherever a discourse is organized. The same thread, or double tress leads us, whether we are reading or speaking, through literature, philosophy, criticism, centuries of representation, of reflection.
Thought has always worked by opposition,
Speech/Writing,
High/Low
By dual, hierarchized oppositions, Superior/Inferior. Myths, legends, books, Philosophical systems.
H. Cixous, 'Sorties'
I've just read a message where someone was using Ephesians 5-6 to show God's loving order: 'submit to one another in God's love: wives to husbands, children to parents, slaves to masters'. Although the text we are reading is often used as God's direct word from heaven, it sounds to me very much like Cixous' list of hierarchized oppositions. I wonder what God thinks of texts like this...
28/05/2008
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