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From: mfci!aefrisch@uunet.UU.NET (AEleen Frisch)
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Subject: Re: Women's Language and Computing
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Date: 22 Oct 88 16:20:22 GMT
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>>I've been reading about Cisoux and Lacan recently.  They have some,
>>um, interesting ideas about language.  
>
>Who are they?  And what field are they in - linguistics?  psychology?  
>something else? 

First of all, it's Helene Cixous.  Jacques Lacan was a French psychoanalyst
whose work has been extended by others to many other fields as well.
Cixous writes on psychoanalysis, feminist theory, and literature (for
starters).  Her most famous piece is "The Laugh of the Medusa," which
was published in Signs several years ago.

It may also be helpful to know that Lacanian and post-Lacanian thinkers
don't find the distinction between psychoanalysis and linguisitics
to be valid/relevent/helpful/...