Hélène Cixous
Biographic Data
| ID | 354747 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hélène Cixous |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hélène |
| FAMILY NAME | Cixous |
| SIGNATURE | CIXOUS H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris 8 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 218 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“À Paris, j’ai découvert la misogynie
Sobre Desconstrução E Infância Hélène Cixous E Jacques Derrida
O texto apresenta um debate entre Jacques Derrida e Hélène Cixous sobre desconstrução e infância, articulado a partir de uma interlocução com Nicholas Royle. Derrida associa a desconstrução ao perverso polimorfo, ao infans pré-linguístico e à crítica das construções adultas da filosofia ocidental, questionando o logocentrismo, a genealogia e a noção de origem. Cixous amplia a reflexão ao vincular infância, sonho, gozo e invenção poética, conceben…
The Day the Impossible Might Happen
The Cat and the Castle
The original version of this text was written and read by Hélène Cixous on the occasion of the reception of the Principauté prize given by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, on 13 October 2021, at the Maison de l’Océan in Paris. It appears here in English for the first time, based on Peggy Kamuf’s original translation, with subsequent revisions and annotations
O C, o, b, r, a, b, a, r, o, c, o
Impossible to hold it still—what? where? which way?—this text on the run, slipping out the back way, swerving out of line with any conceivable edge of text, of land, or of water—impossible to catch
On Deconstruction and Childhood
Ça promet
Lettre à Adel Abdessemed
Dans cette lettre adressée à l’artiste Adel Abdessemed qui accompagne une suite de dessins à la pierre noire intitulée Mon Enfant et une sculpture (« Untiltled ») offrant une version saisissante du motif du double sacrifice d’Abraham/Isaac, Hélène Cixous médite sur la puissance de l’art et de l’écriture, saluant en eux ce qui coupe le souffle quand ils captent dans l’ acte , dans « l’instant arrêté », « le Sans Parole », le « Moment incompréhensi…
Quand H. C. essaie de s’excuser
Dans cette lettre écrite sur le vif, Hélène Cixous note quelques traits télégraphiques au sujet de l’ ekphrasis , de ce que cette figure signifie pour elle tant dans sa pratique d’écriture que dans sa lecture des oeuvres d’art, que celles-ci soient littéraires ou picturales. L’art « appelle », dit-elle, à l’interprétation (musicale), il a « besoin d’être traduit dans son autre langue ». En art comme en littérature, l’oeuvre est « muette », « flot…
Décendre 1981
A Kind of Magic
Thank you my sweet friends, my adopted adoptive friends, my water in the desert, my acolytes in dreams for being here altogether with me. As I’m sure you will agree we share remembering, we share forgetting, we share trembling, we share wishing, we share witching, and we are all, all of us, fellow para-practitioners. You won’t be surprised if I tell you I am not ready, I am not finished, as that also we share. And I think it is the fault or the u…
Shakespeare Ghosting Derrida
This ‘fabulous’ essay sketches a hauntological bond of debts between Shakespeare and Derrida as a complex intertextual scene of translation across languages and literatures (but also philosophy and psychoanalysis), times and cultures. Starting from Derrida's essay ‘What is a “Relevant” Translation?’, Cixous explores via numerous voices, cloaks and masks (Celan, Joyce, Genet, Blanchot, Marx, Freud, Poe, Socrates but also Cixous's own father George…
Poetry in painting
This collection gathers most of Hélène Cixous' texts devoted to contemporary artists, such as the painter Nancy Spero, the photographer Andres Serrano, the visual artist Roni Horn, the fashion designer Sonia Rykiel and the choreographer Karine Saporta, among others. The artworks belong to different genres and media - photography, painting, installations, film, choreography and fashion design - while the commentaries all deal with some of Hélène C…
Volleys of Humanity
A new collection from one of the most famous and influential French theorists These 15 essays – 6 previously unpublished even in French and 5 published in English for the first time – span nearly 40 years of Cixous’ writing. Here, she ranges over literature, philosophy, politics and culture in what she calls her ‘autobibliography’. Key Features Considers a wide variety of writers, including Proust, Kleist, Lispector, Joyce, Shakespeare and Stendh…
Volleys of HumanityEssays 1972-2009
Promised Cities
This chapter discusses the different cities that have been included in Cixous' work, such as Manhattan, Oran, and Osnabrück. It notes that these cities have their own mythical doubles. The chapter also examines the idea that literature exists for the destruction of a city.
Passion Michel Foucault
This is a study of Michel Foucault's life in philosophy. Foucault was probably the most influential Western philosopher since Sartre. Hailed as an original thinker, he has also been criticized as a dangerous and irresponsible nihilist. Drawing on extensive research, this book focuses on the philosopher's obsession with death and his taste for sado-masochistic sex. By the author of Democracy in the Streets
Volleys of humanity
This collection of texts by Hélène Cixous brings together a range of important untranslated as well as four previously unpublished essays. These essays deal with literature, politics history, Algeria, and the university and include works from Cixous' most significant contributions to literary criticism
White ink
Tribute to Ralph Cohen
Tribute to Ralph Cohen Hélène Cixous (bio) Translated by Laurent Milesi To say "Ralph Cohen" is to evoke Virtue, and the virtues of Friendship par excellence, whose other name is Hospitality, attentiveness without end, subtlety of hearing, the quiet repetition of a promise. What gathers and forms itself, like an inner landscape, made up of a profusion of times and images, is extraordinarily clear and peaceful. I think I can say here with a smile …
Philippines
Let's return -revenons.Days of a neat, pure and ruling sun, moments when one truly sees all the realities, starting with the muddled hearts of men and the burning arena of the first wars and the extraordinary beauty of trees that watch human carnage, a novelty, and the voiceless pain of the skinned calf.These days have an unforgettable address (rue Philippe).'Revenons' will be my first word.As long as I shall live, and even more perhaps.Let's ret…
Manhattan
The Book I Don't Write1
The book I don't write? I was about to say. What did I have in mind? Or who? You say that, and the thing becomes a forest, a temple, an army, and each word divides itself up and eats itself. The Bo
Insister of Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida as a Proteus Unbound
The Laugh of the Medusa
Castration or Decapitation
Fiction and Its Phantoms
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, , , Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "Uncanny"), New Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 3, Thinking in the Arts, Sciences, and Literature (Spring, 1976), pp. 525-548+619-645
We Who Are Free, Are We Free
The Book I Don't Write1
The book I don't write? I was about to say. What did I have in mind? Or who? You say that, and the thing becomes a forest, a temple, an army, and each word divides itself up and eats itself. The Bo
Shakespeare Ghosting Derrida
This ‘fabulous’ essay sketches a hauntological bond of debts between Shakespeare and Derrida as a complex intertextual scene of translation across languages and literatures (but also philosophy and psychoanalysis), times and cultures. Starting from Derrida's essay ‘What is a “Relevant” Translation?’, Cixous explores via numerous voices, cloaks and masks (Celan, Joyce, Genet, Blanchot, Marx, Freud, Poe, Socrates but also Cixous's own father George…
Theater, History, Ethics
New Literary History - Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 1997
Without End no State of Drawingness no, rather
On Deconstruction and Childhood
Philippines
Let's return -revenons.Days of a neat, pure and ruling sun, moments when one truly sees all the realities, starting with the muddled hearts of men and the burning arena of the first wars and the extraordinary beauty of trees that watch human carnage, a novelty, and the voiceless pain of the skinned calf.These days have an unforgettable address (rue Philippe).'Revenons' will be my first word.As long as I shall live, and even more perhaps.Let's ret…
Jacques Derrida as a Proteus Unbound
The Unforeseeable
Vols d’aveugle autour d’une librerie
L’auteur esquisse dans ce portrait d’écrivain quelques-unes des figures d’élection de Derrida lecteur. Elle le peint tel qu’il veut se donner à voir, toujours en fuite et en esquive, dans les tours d’une écriture qui se sauve et déjoue tous les termes. Elle le croque ainsi sur le vif à partir de la scène de jalousie qu’il fait à la langue française, mais aussi et surtout de la scène fameuse de la Circoncision qui traverse toute son oeuvre en auta…
Reaching the Point of Wheat, or a Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman
OU HAVE PROBABLY recognized that the title of my essay is an imitation of the title of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I have chosen to pursue a kind of meditation on creation and perhaps also on the different attitudes that men and women show with regard to becoming an artist. The moment I say that, I reproach myself for using the words men and women. We have difficulties nowadays with those words. At first I want simply to give…
Introduction to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark
Marie Maclean, Introduction to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark, New Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 2, Narrative Analysis and Interpretation (Winter, 1982), pp. 231-251
"The Character of "Character
HAT EXACTLY is character? How is it possible at present to think of the of character-if it is a concept? Assuming that this concept has a history, how far are we along now in this history or in the examination of this history? What does character name? These questions are, on the one hand, involved in a whole system of critical presuppositions and crop up from traditional discussions about literature, within a conception of literary creation that…
La déroute du sujet, ou le voyage imaginaire de Dora
savoir, fiction et verite : Le texte qui suit ne saurait se comprendre sans une reference au savoir psychanalytique , puisqu'il met en scene , fait parler et agir le docteur Freud et sa patiente preferee, Dora. Par la meme, il introduit a un rapport inedit entre litterature et psychanalyse : le savoir psychanalytique s* integre a la fiction et la redouble. « L'histoire qui suit est vraie . » Les histoires d'hysteriques toujours vraies, ont d'embl…
"The Character of "Character
HAT EXACTLY is character? How is it possible at present to think of the of character-if it is a concept? Assuming that this concept has a history, how far are we along now in this history or in the examination of this history? What does character name? These questions are, on the one hand, involved in a whole system of critical presuppositions and crop up from traditional discussions about literature, within a conception of literary creation that…
At Circe's, or the Self-Opener
Bloom passes in the street which passes into Bloom. He opens the door which opens him and enters the brothel which prostitutes him. Who touches thinks speaks here? Where is I? Am I the one who was me? The Self-Opener theater which is gaping in Circe not only replays all parts of Ulysses in one scene but, by de-compartmentalization and by depersonalization, decomposes each and everyone into his several selves, breaks the real into fragments and ca…
Fiction and Its Phantoms
Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, , , Fiction and Its Phantoms: A Reading of Freud's Das Unheimliche (The "Uncanny"), New Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 3, Thinking in the Arts, Sciences, and Literature (Spring, 1976), pp. 525-548+619-645
Interview with Helene Cixous
The Laugh of the Medusa
Missexual Misstery
La Jeune Nee
Quant à la pomme de texte
Ce matin, Antonia, comme je vous aime! Ce matin, en moi vous vivez, comme en vous hier j'tais vivante quand je me croyais passe, mais dj vous viviez, quand je me croyais mortelle, dj j'tais prsente quand vous pensiez si fortement, si loin au-del des prsents passs quand je me croyais muette, j'tais mortelle, dj vous saviez si fort, j'tais entendue de vous trs loin au-del des terres sourdes, j'touffais, dj en vous je respirais, quand je ne vous ava…
Castration or Decapitation
Comment on Women's Studies in France
Introduction to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark
Marie Maclean, Introduction to Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass and The Hunting of the Snark, New Literary History, Vol. 13, No. 2, Narrative Analysis and Interpretation (Winter, 1982), pp. 231-251
Portrait of Dora
"Reading Clarice Lispector's "Sunday before Going to Sleep
The story is about a family's Sunday outings. The family used to go to the port where the father stared at the oily waters in such a way that if he were still alive he would perhaps still have before his eyes the oily water(. . .). His look disquieted the daughters. At nightfall, the youngest daughter who enjoys the father's special favors, climbs on a high swivelling stool in one of the city's numerous bars. This, the father found amusing
August 12, 1980
Voice I
The Terrible but Unended Story of Norodom Sihanouk
Cela n'a pas de nom, ce qui se passait
Utdrag ur
I Ebba Witt-Brattströms tolkning följer här ett avsnitt skrivet av Hélene Cixous, hämtat från hennes och Catherine Clements debattbok Lajeune née
Reaching the Point of Wheat, or a Portrait of the Artist as a Maturing Woman
OU HAVE PROBABLY recognized that the title of my essay is an imitation of the title of Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. I have chosen to pursue a kind of meditation on creation and perhaps also on the different attitudes that men and women show with regard to becoming an artist. The moment I say that, I reproach myself for using the words men and women. We have difficulties nowadays with those words. At first I want simply to give…
Partial Women
The Newly Born Woman
The Newly Born Woman
Bathsheba or the Interior Bible
Traduction anglaise d'un essai de Cixous (Bethsabee ou la Bilbe interieure, dans Repentirs) sur la representation du coprs charnel et spirituel dans la peinture de Rembrandt
Without End no State of Drawingness no, rather
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