preorigin
Noun
An ultimate source or origin, before the generally known or accepted origin.
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In order to uncover and thereby unleash the force that both constitutes and disrupts signification in language, Kristeva returns to what she identifies as the source of that force, an ontological preorigin of meaning.
The positing of an origin in other words always goes along with the suppression of its own pre-origin.
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