Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
PLANLAMA-PLANNING, cilt.32, sa.1, ss.38-46, 2022 (ESCI)
A leading feminist literary critic, linguist and psychoanalyst, Julia Kristeva has considerably benefited from Plato's space related term chora to construct her own approach. The work she created is one of the most salient of the all produced with reference to Spatial Turn process dating back to 1970s and boomed after 1980s. As to this importance, the purposes of this paper are to show the motivation behind Kristeva's use of the term chora, with and for what she associates this term and finally how her manipulation of her subject area into geography contributes to spatial turn process. To this end, first Plato's use of the term chora will be analyzed and then Kristeva's multifaceted literary and psychoanalytic approach will be scrutinized with reference to space notion. As a final conclusion, how space turns into a language with which we think on language/literature, psychoanalytical content and feminist criticism will be stated to concretize possible ways of creating a different geographical perspective. The prospects of the term space have been worked on with a structural constructivist approach and a historical geography perspective. As for Kristeva's own works and secondary sources on her works a qualitative text-hermeneutic method has been adopted. All in all, it has been concluded that Kristeva's notion that the poetic language coalesced with mother's body contributes to child's language drastically refuted long lasting alleged phallocentric and somehow orientalist notions of motherhood, and it has been stressed that the chthonian chora as a geographical metaphor, as a heterotopic latent haunt of multiple voices and meanings is at the center of all these discussions.