If my desire is possible, it means the system is already letting something else through.
Interpretation
Desire indicates possibilities within the system, suggesting that what we want is already being acknowledged.
Helene Cixous's quote suggests that if we have a desire that is attainable, it implies that there are existing pathways or systems that allow for the realization of such desires. This reflects a philosophical understanding that our aspirations are linked to the broader context of what is possible, and that the structures around us play a role in manifesting our wishes.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time. _x000D_ Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.
We must kill the false woman who is preventing the live one from breathing.
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
There is no greater romance in life than this adventure in realization.
Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.
Everything lives and lasts by the inner necessity of its being, by its own nature's need.
If, sir, men were all virtuous, I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds neither wall, nor mountains, nor seas could afford any security.
It is my conviction that nothing enduring _x000D_ _x000D_ can be built on violence. _x000D_ _x000D_ The only safe way to overcome an enemy _x000D_ _x000D_ is to make of that enemy a friend.
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