(Dis)Figurations of the self in Georges Bataille’s writing on inner experience

Abstract

This text considers in Bataille’s phrasing the deconstruction of all discursive transitivity in favor of an unregulated spelling of what the author calls his “inner experience.” Thus the homogeneous representation of the world and of itself receives its less intellectual, less predicative, counterpart in a writing of interiority where prevails a semantics of excess, death, sacrifice, as well as an imaginary morphology of the dehiscent, the amorphous, the agonistic. It will be shown how figures exposed to a margin of equivocation between genders request a writing ability to play in a non-refundable way with a drift of forms and senses.