Allowing the Moment to Sing

'Language, on the other hand, has a specificity that no other system based on differences possesses: it divides (signifier/signified) and joins (modifier/modified = sentence); it is sign-communicating-sociality, "musicating" this dividing-joining movement involves exploding rhythm into division, of course, but also into juncture: into the metaphoric-metonymic slippage that corrugates lexemic items and lifts even the signifier/signified censorship; but especially, into the juncture of logic and sentence where socio-symbolic order is rebuilt and ignores anything to do with the previous, underlying (semic, morphemic, phonic, instinctual) explosion. Intervening at the level where syntactic order renders opaque the outlay underlying the signifying practice; intervening at the point where sociality constitutes itself by killing, by throttling the outlay that keeps it alive - that means intervening precisely when the sentence pulls itself together and stops. The problem is to raise and transform this very moment, to allow it to sing'. (p 168)

'Networks of alliteration establish trans-sentence paths that are superimposed over the linear sequence of clauses and introduce into the logical-syntactic memory of the text a phonic-instinctual memory. They set up associative chains that crisscross the text from the beginning to end in every direction'. (p 169)

Ref:

Kristeva, J. (1941). Desire in language. New York: Columbia University Press.