November, 19th, 2012

En 1955, Hélène Cixous avait dix-huit ans.

In 1967 she published her first text, Le Prénom de Dieu (God’s First Name)

Hélène Cixous’ life and work is a search for emancipation, for the self and for others developing the concept of écriture féminine.

In the essay “Le rire de la Méduse,” (1975) Cixous first explains the invention of a new insurgent writing that will allow women to “transform their his tory, to seize the occasion to speak.” Further on, she challenges her readers: “Écris- toi: il faut que ton corps se fasse entendre. Alors jailliront les immenses ressources de l’inconscient.” (“Write yourself. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.”).