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International Colloquium with Julia Kristeva ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chérie mon amour: A Mosaic from Kristeva's Colette As Julia Kristeva herself points out in the conclusion to the volumes of her Le génie feminin, her relation to the three writers, Hannah Arendt, Melanie Klein and Colette is made up out of both ‘contagion érotique’ and of ‘distances agacées’. For me the intensity of this ambivalence, its creative force, its acknowledgment of the life of the subject as singular and resistant to authority or system is something of a model for intellectual comportment. The closeness to the writer gives rise to the sense of difference, within and beside the self, which enables thought, but, at the same time, for any of us the writer is a singularity, so that Kristeva’s Colette and mine must constitute a relation of plural convergences and divergences, of recognition and misrecognition. In a consideration of this profoundly creative aporetic I will think through what is it that we bring to a text, to a writer? What is it to love a text and how or where can we think of that love as being grounded? Taking phrases and fragments from Colette’s Cheri and her Fin de Cheri I will set out to imagine a relation to the work of Julia Kristeva as the complex and transforming ensemble that it is.
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