Abstract
Despite the enormous changes in feminism, philosophy and literary theory since 1975, the year in which Hélène Cixous first wrote the small manifesto by which she remains best known, ‘The Laugh of the Medusa’ continues to find generations of new readers who, upon discovering it, often declare their passionate love for it. This essay explores the relation between the enduring love that this text continues to inspire and the deconstruction of love that is inscribed within it. Irreverently and playfully drawing upon psychoanalytic descriptions of laughter as a transgressive release of bound libidinal energies, Cixous's text gives birth to a language of love that inhabits and resists the laws of language from within.
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