Julia Krestiva speaks very interestingly on both the role of women writers
and depression when interviewed by Susan Sellers - 'A Question of
Subjectivity - an Interview', Women's Review, no. 12 (1986) pp. 19-21. It
is reprinted in Modern Literary Theory: A Reader, 3rd edition, edited by
Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh (London: Arnold/Hodder Headline Group) ISBN
0 340 64585 7. (HH - this book is/was available through ECU, and possibly
is in the library.)
Here's a taste:
JK: ... I would say that the creative act is released by an experience of
depression without which we would not call into question the stability of
meaning or the banality of expression. A wriyter must at one time or
another have been in a situation of loss - of ties, of meaning - in order
to write.
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