Heterogeneity of Signifiance
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Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection · Julia Kristeva · p.60
POWERS OF HORROR > WHY DOES LANGUAGE APPEAR TO BE "ALIEN"?
Theoretical move: Kristeva argues that the collapse of the paternal/condensation function in borderline patients dissolves the sign's constitutive unity of word-presentation and thing-presentation, producing a desperate erotization of abjection as the only remaining anchor to the Other—a position that demands psychoanalysis attend to the heterogeneity of signifiance rather than reducing language to a purely philosophical or Saussurian model.
the point is, quite to the contrary, to posit a heterogeneity of signifiance... one can say nothing of such (effective or semiotic) heterogeneity without making it homologous with the linguistic signifier