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The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship
Speaking of Freud, the feminist theorist Juliet Mitchell has remarked that "psychoanalysis is not a recommendation for a patriarchal society, but an analysis of one.
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Infection in the Sentence :
The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship
Thus Bloom explains that a "strong poet" must engage in heroic warfare with his "precursor," for, involved as he is in a literary Oedipal struggle, a man can only become a poet by somehow invalidating his poetic father.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
...the confinement of these women, a confinement that was inescapable for them even at their moments of greatest triumph, a confinement that was implicit in their secretness. This confinement was both literal and figurative. Literally, women like Dickinson, Bronte, and Rossetti were imprisoned in their homes, their father's houses; indeed, almost all nineteenth-century women were in some sense imprisoned in men's houses. Figuratively, such women were, as we have seen, locked into male texts, texts from which they could escape only through ingenuity and indirection.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
More specifically, however, the one plot that seems to be concealed in most of the nineteenth-century literature by women which will concern us here is in some sense a story of the woman writer's quest for her own story; it is the story, in other words, of the woman's quest for self-definition...
...The story "no man may guess," therefore, is the story of her attempt to make herself whole by healing her own infections and diseases.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
Conditioned to doubt their own authority anyway, women writers who wanted to describe what, in Dickinson's phrase, is "not brayed of tongue" would find it easier to doubt themselves than the censorious voices of society. The evasions and concealments of their art are therefore far more elaborate than those of most male writers. For, given the patriarchal biases of nineteenth-century literary culture, the literary woman did have something crucial to hide.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
Interestingly, indeed, several feminist critics have recently used Frantz Fanon's model of colonialism to describe the relationship between male (parent) culture and female (colonized) literature. "But with only one language at their disposal, women writers in England and America had to be even more adept at doubletalk than their colonized counterparts. We shall see, therefore, that in publicly presenting acceptable facades for private and dangerous visions women writers have long used a wide range of tactics to obscure but not obliterate their most subversive impulses."
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
"You could dance, or you could have the love of a good man. But you were afraid to dance, because you had this unnatural fear that if you danced they'd cut your feet off so you wouldn't be able to dance. . . ."
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Finally, such traditional, metaphorically matrilineal anx- iety ensures that even the maker of a text, when she is a woman, may feel imprisoned within texts — folded and "wrinkled" by their pages and thus trapped in their "perpetual seam[s]" which perpetually tell her how she seems.
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Infection in the Sentence: The Woman Writer and the Anxiety
For if contemporary women do now attempt the pen with energy and authority, they are able to do so only because their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century foremothers struggled in isoladon that felt like illness, alienation that felt like madness, obscurity that felt like paralysis to overcome the anxiety of authorship that was endemic to their literary subculture.
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Infection in the Sentence :
The Woman Writer and the Anxiety of Authorship
Thus the "anxiety of influence" that a male poet experiences is felt by a female poet as an even more primary "anxiety of authorship" — a radical fear that she cannot create, that because she can never become a "precursor" the act of writing will isolate or destroy her.
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