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Susceptibility and Cixous’s Self-Strange Subject

Published:2024-05-06 Issue:3 Volume:9 Page:65
ISSN:2409-9287
Container-title:Philosophies
language:en
Short-container-title:Philosophies

Author:

Hughes Robert¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of English, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA

Abstract

This essay reads a short narrative, “Savoir” by Hélène Cixous, to describe susceptibility as a problem organized around two lines of impingement: between subject and world and between consciousness and the wayward impulses of interior life. The young girl in Cixous’s text suffers a moment of disorientation and distress one misty morning and, against presumptions of inviolability and ideals of subjective consistency, this unhappy event comes to resonate with her disappointed trust in the generosity of the world, her anxious sense of betrayal with respect to those who ought to protect her and her insecurity about her own role in this complex of associations. The frame of susceptibility thus opens up a space for Cixous’s reader and this essay to think the subject in her inconsistency and self-strangeness.

Publisher

MDPI AG

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/9/3/65/pdf

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