I believe that one can only begin to advance along the path of discovery, the discovery of writing or anything else, from mourning and in the reparation of mourning. In the beginning the gesture of writing is linked to the experience of disappearance, to the feeling of having lost the key to the world, of having been thrown outside. Of having suddenly acquired the precious sense of the rare, of the mortal. Of having urgently to regain the entrance, the breath, to keep trace.[i]
-Hélène Cixous
[i] Cixous, H. Translated by Jenson, D. & Sellers, S. “De la scene de l’Incomscient a la scene de l’Histoire”, Chemin d’une ecriture, PUV, Saint Denis, 1990, p. 19.