'My business is circumference': A meditation on scission, locution, confession

Hilary Emmett

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'My business is circumference': A meditation on scission, locution, confession

Hilary Emmett

American Studies

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Abstract

This essay offers a speculative account of the metaphor of circumcision in Jacques Derrida’s autobiographical writing. I draw upon Elaine Scarry and Nancy Jay in addition to psychoanalytic readers of the Hebrew Bible (Julia Reinhard Lupton, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan) in order first to explore the meaning of circumcision in its Biblical context before bringing this significance to bear on Derrida’s work.

Original language	English
Journal	The Bible and Critical Theory
Volume	4
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2104/bc080027
Publication status	Published - Jun 2008

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