No, just been super busy theorizing the pre-Oedipal, signifying language, and language's infinite possibilities.

Cool, thought you were offended, maybe when I asked you what in tarnation you meant by the phrase "to vomit the mother" in Powers of Horror.

I'm pretty sure I vomited my mother at some point. LOL.

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Look, I know this is Facebook so we're supposed to keep things lite, but when it comes to the child-mother bond, I'm not down with the chuckles.

But aren't we, by virtue of using the language of the Father right now, implicating ourselves in the very system you condemn? Aren't we bowing to social constraints?

I am afraid so. But if we stay in the semiotic, we can't be theorists, so we're damned if we do, damned if we don't.

Boo.

'Fraid I have a gnarly headache. Being an intellectual is hard work.

Being a female intellectual is even harder.

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Are you still beating that drum, Julia? For someone who finds collective identity so odious, you seem all too ready to make women intellectuals out to be one mutually thinking and feeling entity.

Sometimes I feel that it is the plight of the female intellectual to be isolated. It's lonely work. Look, I just find that— in the words of the demi-god James Brown: "This is a man's world, this is a man's world…"

You are forgetting the next line: "But it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl."

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A little soul music always gets me back on track.