Luce Irigaray
Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.[3] 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),[4] 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,[5] 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.[6]
Luce Irigaray | |
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Born | (1930-05-03) 3 May 1930 (age 93) |
Nationality | French |
Alma mater | Catholic University of Louvain |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental 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] |
Irigaray employs three different modes[7] in her investigations into the nature of gender, language, and identity: the analytic, the essayistic, and the lyrical poetic.[8] As of October 2021, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.[9]