Dream I Tell You

The Frontiers of Theory; Edited by Martin McQuillan, Leeds University; This series brings together internationally respected figures to comment on and re-describe the state of theory in the twenty-first century and to look forward to the twenty-first century as the century of theory. It takes stock of an ever-expanding field of knowledge and opens up possible new modes of inquiry within it, Identifying new theoretical pathways, innovative thinking and productive motifs. An account of, and commentary on, a collection of dreams by this much admired French novelist, playwright and theorist. The dreams are both a rich poetic tapestry and a key document in understanding Cixous’ writing practice. The ‘You’ of the title is Jacques Derrida to whom they are recounted, as such the book then involves a deconstruction of psychoanalysis, the field of fiction and literary production, subjectivity, sexual difference, and the question of friendship. Derrida’s response to Dreams I Tell You Is his book Genius, Genealogies, Genres and the Genie, also to be published by Edinburgh University Press In The Frontiers of Theory series. Helene Cixous is currently Director of the Centre Etudes Feminines, Universite Paris VIII.