Tel Quel: Text & Revolution

L’écriture limite: Kristeva's Postmodern Feminist Ethics

“…Kristeva writes as a dramatis persona , a player in the drama, “a revolutionary actor, a ‘scriptor’ of events” (Caws 1973, 3), in order both to call attention to and to interrogate the detached and stable person‐subject that has dominated moral philosophy since John Locke's Second Treatise . Thus Kristeva's writings must be dissociated from the idea of the text as object or propertied product, authored and controlled by the person‐subject.…”

Review Article

“…The collection of texts under review here, entitled Psicanalisi e semiotica (1975) contains portions of talks presented at this psychoanalytic convention, nicely edited by Armando Verdiglione. 2 The texts convey a deep concern to combine revolutionary social action (which includes for the Tel Quel group especially the craft of writing as translinguistic process; see Caws, 1973) with radical psychoanalytic insight (primarily conceived as analysis of distorted communication as developed by Lacan, 1966; see Bär, 1975). The result of this combination is an arresting and radical mixture of metasociology and metapsychology, of exosemiotics (study of semiotic systems outside the body) and endosemiotics (study of semiotic systems inside the body).…”