A terrorist or a depressive
1. Does "maintain" in the text below mean "says (states)" or "supports"?
2. Does "a terrorist or a depressive" mean "a threat or a depressed person"?
Context:
Kristeva ultimately maintains the idea that something horrific lies behind femininity. She says that woman cannot laugh at the destruction of the phallocentric order, as this would turn her either into a terrorist or a depressive because she does not have the inherent difference that allows the male avant-garde poet to reduce language to nonsense without threatening his subjectivity. Of course this is a slight generalisation, but it has given rise to critiques of Kristeva’s politics. On the other hand, many (female) artists have found inspiration in Kristeva’s writing and her reworking of self and other in terms of the semiotic and its connection to the affective body.
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catttt 1. Does "maintain" in the text below mean "says (states)" or "supports"? I don't know because I don't know what this Kristeva is supposed to be thinking.
- catttt 1.
- Does "maintain" in the text below mean "says (states)" or "supports"?
- I don't know because I don't know what this Kristeva is supposed to be thinking.
- The writer's language is unusual and ambiguous, no surprise there.
- You don't normally maintain an idea that something verb when you mean that you state it .
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catttt1. Does "maintain" in the text below mean "says (states)" or "supports"?
I don't know because I don't know what this Kristeva is supposed to be thinking. The writer's language is unusual and ambiguous, no surprise there. You don't normally maintain an idea that something verb when you mean that you state it. You maintain th
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