ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an alternate understanding of revolt through a parallel reading of Laozi’s yin/yang of intimacy and Kristeva’s revolt in the search for a third possibility. The author follows Kristeva’s exploration of the etymology of revolt and Laozi’s notions of change and fluidity and their relationship to multiple notions of return. Next, she notes certain parallels between Kristeva’s proposition that both language and psyche are composed of the symbolic and semiotic and Laozi’s formation of harmony through the yin and yang relationship. Noting that Kristeva calls for plural singularity in the third generation of feminism and that within the Taoist tradition yin and yang are integrated forces that make possible the transformations of opposites into a third, the author suggests that between the two is the birth of the cocreative. The author then explores the implications of Kristeva’s intimacy in revolt before turning to the labyrinth as a bridge between Taoist playfulness and Kristevian intimacy. Finally, the author offers other modes of creativity based on translation and lostness that can account for complexity and polyvalence; ones that confront the recursive nature of human problems.
