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copoietic

copoietic

English

Adjective

copoietic (comparative more copoietic, superlative most copoietic)

  1. Of or relating to copoiesis.
    • 2006, M. Catherine de Zegher, Eva Hesse, Elisabeth Sussman, Eva Hesse drawing (page 73)
      [] an "ideal mother" thread combined with strings of gaze-and-touching in repetition and strings of virtual not-enoughness that supply copoietic energy for repetition-in-difference and for matrixial transference []
    • 2007, Hein Viljoen, C. N. Van der Merwe, Beyond the threshold: explorations of liminality in literature (page 129)
      [] the meaning of the crossing of trauma in Beauty can be transmitted and clarified only in the desire for a further cobirthing, for a copoietic coming-into-being in a borderline intermediate passage-space within the transference []