![]() ![]() In this article, I trace the devel- opment of the concept of negativity in Revolution in Poetic Language from its root in Hegel, to rejection, which Kristeva develops out of Freud. Central to that challenge is Kristeva’s conception of negativity. Kristeva’s Revolution in Poetic Language offers a challenge to theories of the subject in psychoanalysis, linguistic theory, and in philosophy. Reduplications of this transformative moment expand upon sacred history in terms of the Torah's central injunction to love one's neighbor as oneself. Exploring as such the doubly chiastic poem in which, when naming woman in Eden, a human being (adam) changes its name to man (iysh) challenges man's biblical history, while restoring the memory of interconnection with the mother and all life. This way is embodied in the inversions, textuality, and concentricity of the rhetorical trope of chiasmus, which exceeds the bounds of the Law to provide a form for the expression of "woman's desire" and so for the feminine text. ![]() Torah, the name of the first five books of the "sacred history" told in the Hebrew Bible, tends to be translated as "Law" and to be affiliated with the separating "Law of the Father." But Torah means "teaching." Venerable tradition allies this teaching with feminine Wisdom, "a tree of life." Theories of poetic language elaborated by such scholars as Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous facilitate discovering beneath the Torah's fractured and labyrinthine surface a way of return to the mother. ![]()
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