Chora

7.16. Chora

In terms of its scope, depth, and methodology, À la recherche du temps perdu can be perceived and defined in terms of the notion of chora. Originally put forward by Plato in the Timaeus, this notion was reprised during the mid-late twentieth century. Plato’s chora was reconceptualised and recontextualised in Deconstructive theory by Derrida, adapted by theorists including Kristeva, and Ulmer (1994). In Révolution du langage poétique (1974) Kristeva adapted the notion of chora to psychoanalytic linguistic theory; in her usage chora denotes a deep, mobile and extremely provisional form of articulation on the semiotic level of an individual subject’s constitution in language.

From The Writer's Fugue, Chapter 7, Marcel Proust's Fugue of Temps Perdu

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