The Feminine and the Sacred (review)

Abstract

This is a pre-print version of the following: Hendricks, C. (2004). [Review of the book The Feminine and the Sacred, by Catherine Clément and Julia Kristeva]. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 18(2), 161-164.

Girls and the unconscious in Murakami Haruki's Kafka on the Shore

“…According to Kristeva, that maternal parting, that point of tension between the body and the law, between the maternal and paternal, is 'where we love, we imagine, and we create meaning'. 44 And it required the empathetic qualities of the female Ō shima, the Kristevan analyst, 45 to lead Kafka to this point. But now Kafka needs an example of that new meaning, a new narrative that will enable him to re-enter the 'orbit' of his own identity.…”