Atwood’s Two-Headed Poems draws attention to the way in which the body challenges restrictive codes or binaries. Her representations of the daughter who identifies with her own mother explore a form of corporeality that enables individuals to recognize their reflective capacity. This subject of identification can be explained by Kristeva’s theories on maternity. Foregrounding the maternal body that absorbs the duality of primal fusion and its loss, Kristeva actually traces (the mother’s) love and transference that facilitate Atwood’s ethical vision. For Kristeva, the moment of love is the moment at which the self expands him/herself to the dimensions of the universe. The position and role of the female or maternal body are portrayed by Atwood as a sense of commonality through which she connects humans to all creation.
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