Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray
Born (1930-05-03) 3 May 1930 (age 94)
Blaton, Bernissart, Wallonia, Belgium
NationalityFrench
Alma materCatholic University of Louvain
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental philosophy
French feminism[1]
Main interests
Linguistics,

Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, Feminist Theory, Philosophy, Psychology, Schizophrenia

Gender identity
Notable ideas
Phallocentrism, "Women on the market"[2]
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Luce Irigaray (born 3 May 1930) is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, and cultural theorist who examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.[4] Irigaray's first and most well known book, published in 1974, was Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), which analyzes the texts of Freud, Hegel, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, and Kant through the lens of phallocentrism. Irigaray is the author of works analyzing many thinkers, including This Sex Which Is Not One (1977),[5] which discusses Lacan's work as well as political economy; Elemental Passions (1982) can be read as a response to Merleau‐Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible,[6] and in The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger (1999), Irigaray critiques Heidegger's emphasis on the element of earth as the ground of life and speech and his "oblivion" or forgetting of air.[7]

Irigaray employs three different modes[8] in her investigations into the nature of gender, language, and identity: the analytic, the essayistic, and the lyrical poetic.[9] As of October 2021, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.[10]

  1. ^ Kelly Ives, Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism, Crescent Moon Publishing, 2016.
  2. ^ Luce Irigaray, "Women on the Market", in: This Sex Which Is Not One, Cornell University Press, 1985, p. 170.
  3. ^ "God's Mother, Eve's Advocate: a Gynocentric Refiguration of Marian Symbolism in Engagement with Luce Irigaray" (PDF). 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2022.
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  5. ^ Gerstner, ed. (2006). Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture. New York: Routledge. pp. 309. ISBN 0-415-30651-5.
  6. ^ Sjöholm, Cecilia (2000). "Crossing Lovers: Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions". Hypatia. 15 (3): 92–112. doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb00332.x. ISSN 1527-2001. S2CID 143882714.
  7. ^ Irigaray, Luce (1999). The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger. University of Texas Press.
  8. ^ Ives, Kelly (2016). Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva: The Jouissance of French Feminism (European Writers). Maidstone, Kent: Crescent Moon Publishing. p. 28. ISBN 978-1861715470.
  9. ^ Irigaray, Luce. (1992). Elemental passions. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0415906911. OCLC 27376081.
  10. ^ "Luce Irigaray (1932?—)". Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.