![]() ![]() Since the early 1970s, the analytic techniques developed by feminists have gained wide acceptance in many fields, including literary criticism, biology, art history, anthropology, and film criticism. ![]() What follows is my examination of this reaction it is my struggle to interpret, understand, and make sense out of McClary's work. I could not put it down, except for the times I was throwing it at the wall. One only needs to substitute "McClary" for "Kristeva" in the quote above, and it captures perfectly my experience of reading Feminine Endings-both exasperating and exhilarating, frustrating but compelling. What you will read is the result of my struggle to understand and interpret Kristeva's writings. ![]() I am drawn to them in a struggle to control them by interpreting them, by understanding them, by making sense out of them. Like the abject mother, her writings are both sublime and repulsive. I am both attracted to and repelled by her writings at the same time. The frustration and excitement of reading Kristeva's writings makes my own relationship to them similar to what she describes as the relation to the abject mother. ![]()
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