Kristeva remarks that poetic language is not only "feminine," but arises from the pre-Oedipal, narcissistic stage of psychic development; she deems it "musical" and relates it to the basic mother-child relationship... Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' and Molly Bloom's soliloquy at the end of 'Ulysses' bears witness, she feels, to this unique phenomenon...
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