Author: Elizabeth A Wilson

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Vandalizing Words

Post author Elizabeth A Wilson
Post date May 19, 2023

Early on in All That Was Not Her, as he recounts the difficulties of writing about Beverly, there is a sentence that catches her eye: “I seek to write the negative without vandalizing it” (p. 10). Negative is one of her favorite words. It marks a condensed, indispensable, impossible conceptual space. But this time it is vandalize that gives …

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A Reply

Post author Elizabeth A Wilson
Post date June 12, 2017

How does one use a book? We are well trained in how to read a book. We know how to interpret, decipher or clarify the content of the pages we read. But what about a different kind of engagement with a book? One less immediately oriented toward the satisfactions of comprehension and discernment and more oriented to use.

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Tags Feminism, Gut, Psychoanalysis