“It
has let us to consider that the anxiety over the feminine has been the communal
experience that has allowed our civilization to reveal, in a new way, the
incommensurability of the individual. This incommensurability is rooted in
sexual experience but nonetheless is realized through the risks that each of us
is prepared to take by calling into question thought, language, one’s own age,
and any identity that resides in them. You
are a genius to the extent that you are able to challenge the sociohistorical
conditions of your identity. This is the legacy of Arendt, Klein, and Colette.”
Julia Kristeva, “Is There a Feminine Genius?”, Critical
Inquiry, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2004), pp. 504.
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