TAI-E3156 - Approaches to Writing, Lecture, 25.4.2022-23.5.2022

l choose Hélène’s text because of how it provokes me in a very visceral way, as poetry does. I feel triggered, confused and moved by Cixous’s writing. Her writing is organic and fleshy, I feel connected to it, it opens up ideas that surpass concrete symbols. 

Her way of writing is fresh, volatile and deeply attached to language and to the body. She plays with signs and symbols while reflecting on vitality of language and on life itself. It is inspiring how she crosses linguistics with her personal life, how she moves through these topics with rhythm and confidence. I feel provoked by her freedom and playfulness while keeping a clear structure and reflection behind it. I mainly feel inspired by her way of writing not necessarily as a way to share and connect knowledge, but to reflect upon them metaphysically by playing with letters, words, sentences and meanings. 

Another of the aspects that provokes me is the topics that she writes about. She reflects upon her life, living, dying and language/writing. It is all entangled in her writing, while she searches with language what it means to write/live. She goes through deep self and universal reflections in a poetical and suggestive way, creating images and emotions that go beyond facts. She is sincere, she is deep, she is complex while being simple.