"For Kristeva, the semiotic expresses that original libidinal multiplicity within the very terms of culture, more precisely, within poetic language in which multiple meanings and semantic non-closure prevail. In effect, poetic language is the recovery of the maternal body within the terms of language, one that has the potential to disrupt, subvert, and displace the paternal law."
p. 102
" ... Kristeva describes the maternal body as bearing a set of meanings that are prior to culture itself."
p. 103
"... this libidinal source of subversion cannot be maintained within the terms of culture, ... its sustained presence within culture leads to psychosis and to the breakdown of cultural life itself ... "
p. 103
from Gender Trouble, Judith Butler 1999, Routledge NY.
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