Betsy Wing, in her translation of Cixous's "The Book of Promethea," said:

"For Cixous all writing is necessarily both autobiographical and fictional, shaped by history and the unconscious" (Wing, vi).

From her earliest texts, she has been concerned with producing a work that gives the reader the desire to write, to enter into the process of desire that will permit the emergence of a certain sort of work. Speaking of this process she describes a "love story with dreams" where her part is to note down what emerges from her unconscious in an attempt to work with the forces that drive and pressure her, Cixous as I, the author. (Wing, vi)