Argumentative Topic Proposal (Womens Language in Womens Writings)

Question: Discuss about the Report on Argumentative Topic Proposal (Womens Language in Womens Writings)? Answer: Introduction Helen Cixous in her The Laugh of the Medusa, for the first time coined the term ecriture feminine. According to Cixous, women should have their language of their own, which she regarded as the ecriture feminine. According to psychoanalyst like Jacques Lacan and Sigmund Freud, there is a lack in a woman because the woman lacks the phallus. Thus, according to Freud the unconscious of the women is less repressed and thus tend to be more immoral and more irrational than the man (Sayers, Janet and Deborah). Cixous challenges the view and proposed for the language of woman, according to Cixous the language used in writing has always favored the men and has favored the laws of the men. Ecriture Feminine Sexuality of the women has always been repressed and it has always been the world of women. People like Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Hlne Cixous, and Monique Witting, challenges the oppressive view of the phallogocentric Western culture. According to these people, or according to these women the repression that a women experience during the infancy period and during the phase of later sexuality, is not been expressed through jouissance, or through the direct re-experiencing of the physical pleasures (Christie). Kristeva, although limits herself until this point, such is not the case with the others. Women are seen either as a wife or as a mother, or they are seen as virgin or a prostitute. Therefore, the role of the women is always restricted as well as constructed, which these feminist scholars are opposing. As per the statements made by Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Hlne Cixous, and Monique Witting, it can be said that this kind of restriction has resulted in a great impact on t he writing style of women. Therefore, before analyzing the womens writing it is important to analyze the reason behind that particular writing style. On the other hand, the scholars, although had a similar agenda the path shown by them or rather their thoughts are different (Kamuf). Hlne Cixous proposed a language for the women, which will allow the women to express themselves, in the phallogocentric world or culture; while Kristeva believes that womens writing is similar to the writings of a hysteric because their writings stand out of the male world and while she supports the semiotic writings of Joyce, Cixous has a very different view. Cixous as if Kristeva has always liked the, authors like Joyce, whose texts could be referred as anti-phallocentric (Henke) Cixous, although, favors the writing of Joyce, yet she has a thought and that is she thinks that the unconscious of a woman is very different from the unconscious of a man. Cixous believes that the psychosexuality of the women is different from that from that of a woman, and therefore, the women could use this psychosexuality to empower themselves. Cixous also believes that with the help of their own psychosexuality, women could create their own discourse (Kamuf). Therefore, as per the arguments made by Kr isteva and Cixous, it can be said that the writing of Joyce is unique while Joyce has established the positive power of women in aspect of psychosexuality. It can also be seen from the arguments that the sexual differentiation between men and women has impacted the writing of women in such a way so that several women writer has been able to come up with their positivity in the psychosexual aspect. Conclusion Now, it is important to make some kind of argument in order to a conclusion based on the discussion of the whole study. The laws of male sexuality has led to the suffering of women and Cixous is that person who had a knowledge of these series of women suffering and who had analyzed the sufferings as well. Therefore, Cixous believe in a different id-liberated feminine discourse, and she also believes that if the women could create their own discourse with the help of their own psychosexuality then that would help them to over throw the ideology that the male sexuality has constructed. References Christie, Alex. "No Gates, No Locks, No Bolts: Feminist Politics and Information Access in the Digital Realm Aimee Armande Wilson, Indiana University of Pennsylvania awilson@ iup. edu November 19, 2015." (2015). Henke, Suzette A.James Joyce and the politics of desire. Routledge, 2015. Kamuf, Peggy. "Hlne Cixous: Writing for Her Life."Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory(2015): 128. Sayers, Janet Grace, and Deborah Jones. "Truth Scribbled in Blood: Women's Work, Menstruation and Poetry."Gender, Work Organization22.2 (2015): 94-111.