Connections between male sexuality and male writing, and female sexuality and female writing.

Male sexuality

• “the big dick”
• the writing, like the sex, is a whose is bigger contest that is ultimately a boring game to play.
• “little pocket signifier” = penis/phallus/pen
• A signifier is a sign or a name or a word or a concept that we use to mark out the boundaries of things or thoughts in our culture.
• Male writing, like male definitions of sexuality, is rigidly controlled and defined so that it can be used to maintain the social order that already exists

Female sexuality

• The book has yet to be written about female sexuality.
• Women haven’t had the words to think it, nonetheless write it. 
• In masculine writing, women are written as the Other that is defined by the Man
• When women struggle to write themselves it is halting and creative, because we are building it as we go.  It is a creative desire.
• Consider it in terms of our sexuality
• This lets it be free and diverse and exciting.
• It is multiple and mobile and complex

• Women write in “white ink”
• It doesn’t draw boundaries, it opens possibilities
• She creates language as she goes

• The desire to write is an embodied desire,
• a desire to become a self in a body,
• a desire to give life to experiences and ideas -- ideas that change and grow because they are alive too.
• A desire to be thought and to think using what ever concepts and language that you need

• Jouissance.