Identify the correct option in Julia Kristeva's definition of the 'chora':
- A. A liminal space
- B. A space of the marginalised
- C. A non-expressive totality formed by the drives
- D. Has no fixed identity
- E. Precedes the linguistic sign
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Correct answer: B. (C), (D) and (E) only
Explanation
In Revolution in Poetic Language (1974) Kristeva borrows Plato's chora for the pre-linguistic, pre-Oedipal 'receptacle': a non-expressive totality formed by the drives, mobile and without fixed identity, preceding the sign and the symbolic order.
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