NDLI: A voice of her own? Echo’s own echo

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Author	Käll, Lisa Folkmarson
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	This article approaches Ovid’s story of Echo and Narcissus in the Metamorphoses through some of Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s writings on expression and speech. Echo’s speech as portrayed by Ovid clearly illustrates how Merleau-Ponty describes speech in Phenomenology of Perception as a “paradoxical operation” through which we use words with already given sense and in that very process both stabilize and alter established meaning. Instead of reducing Echo to a moment of the identity and fate of Narcissus, I bring out Echo’s own voice and the expression of her subjectivity through creative repetition. The short dialogue between Echo and Narcissus makes manifest that Echo’s words cannot be reduced to a simple repetition of a clear and distinct original. Rather, her speech emerges in relation to an original that is only made present as an original of a repetition in that very repetition. Echo’s voice is disruption of the words she repeats and each repetition is also its own origin. Echo’s own voice is only made present when we listen to it as something other than a simple repetition of the voice of Narcissus. The fragments she returns through her echo, lose their fragmented character through modifying and altering their already given meaning. What Echo lacks is not primarily a voice of her own but rather an unbound origin which by itself remains mute and thereby runs the risk of not expressing anything at all. Echo is repetition but it is precisely as repetition that she is also originating speech.
Starting Page	59
Ending Page	75
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	13872842
Journal	Continental Philosophy Review
Volume Number	48
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15731103
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-02-13
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Merleau-Ponty Echo Ovid Repetition Voice Expression Phenomenology Philosophy of Man Political Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy

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