revulsion – is that kristeva??

by candyfloss girl

Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2002-03-08 20:17:00

Parent message is 136686
yeah just getting further into the book and there seems to be recurring images here of food (well I guess i could have guessed from the title) and the idea of being revulsed by food…she keeps seeing meat as what it really is flesh of a dead thing not something prettily packaged and labelled with a fancy name… i’m guessing this is gonna lead up to some kind of feminist metaphor of men reducing women to their component parts you know like in those elizabethan poems praising body parts…cant remember what they were called but them anyway…and i cant remember is it Kristeva who did all the theory about revulsion and why we dont like to see the “skin” on milk and stuff like that? just thought i might like to refresh my mind on that as i’m reading, its quite interesting, she seems to have recurring images she’s using of eggs a whooole lot…like the way eggs are so strong if you crush them longways, but move your hand a tiny bit and theyre so delicate you break them immediately, and how she feels like an egg only held in by her shell without it she would run everywhere and spread out (losing her sense of safety but maybe also escaping self-imposed limitations?) anyway…i’m replying to my own post here very bizarrely…guess i just wanted to record my thoughts on the book as i go along!
cheers for reading if you made it this far down!!!!