Jessica’s Reviews > Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought > Status Update

'a power over us, as well as over the "reality" [texts] comprehend, and the reader who would describe his vision necessarily puts off that power and clears a space within which to find his own voice. Such an effort at control need not be willful, but it does seem necessary, for without a mild exercise of power, the text retains its ambivalent aspect of otherness; control, on the other hand, leads to possession.'