scholarly journals A Study of Ecological Feminism Aspects in Kim Seon-woo's Poetry - With a focus on maternal instinct character -

2011 ◽  
Vol null (34) ◽  
pp. 89-120
Author(s):  
김동명
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Instinct ◽  
Ecological Feminism

Maternal instinct

2005 ◽  
Vol 19 (17) ◽  
pp. 18-18
Author(s):  
Lynne Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Maternal Instinct

The Body Politics of Julia Kristeva

Hypatia ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Butler
Keyword(s):  
Psychoanalytic Theory ◽  
Julia Kristeva ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Politics ◽  
Linguistic Practice ◽  
Maternal Instinct ◽  
Theory Of Language ◽  
Maternal Discourse ◽  
Symbolic Speech

Julia Kristeva attempts to expose the limits of Lacan's theory of language by revealing the semiotic dimension of language that it excludes. She argues that the semiotic potential of language is subversive, and describes the semiotic as a poetic-maternal linguistic practice that disrupts the symbolic, understood as culturally intelligible rule-governed speech. In the course of arguing that the semiotic contests the universality of the Symbolic, Kristeva makes several theoretical moves which end up consolidating the power of the Symbolic and paternal authority generally. She defends a maternal instinct as a pre-discursive biological necessity, thereby naturalizing a specific cultural configuration of maternity. In her use of psychoanalytic theory, she ends up claiming the cultural unintelligibility of lesbianism. Her distinction between the semiotic and the Symbolic operates to foreclose a cultural investigation into the genesis of precisely those feminine principles for which she claims a pre-discursive, naturalistic ontology. Although she claims that the maternal aspects of language are repressed in Symbolic speech and provide a critical possibility of displacing the hegemony of the paternal/symbolic, her very descriptions of the maternal appear to accept rather than contest the inevitable hegemony of the Symbolic. In conclusion, this essay offers a genealogical critique of the maternal discourse in Kristeva and suggests that recourse to the maternal does not constitute a subversive strategy as Kristeva appears to assume.

The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism

1990 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen J. Warren ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Feminism
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