Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental PassionsForever Fluid is a rich feast of literary and philosophical insight. It provides the first English commentary on Luce Irigaray's poetic text, Elemental Passions, setting it within its context within continental thought. It explores Irigaray's images and intentions, developing the gender drama that takes place within her book, and draws the reader into the conversation in the text between 'I-woman' and 'you-man'. But the book is also much more than this, as it uses the exploration of sexual difference as a means to challenge the system of binary logic which has pervaded western thought since Aristotle. It develops the exciting idea of a fluid logic which can move beyond oppositions to multiple subjects and creativity of thought and action. While challenging Irigaray's refusal to move beyond sexual difference, the book shows how her representation of sexual difference enables appreciation of difference of all kinds. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Irigaray and psychoanalytic theory | 33 |
context and style of Elemental Passions | 52 |
Images for a female subject | 105 |
Multiple subjects and fluid boundaries | 124 |
Fluid logic | 137 |
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Forever Fluid: A Reading of Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions Hanneke Canters,Grace M. Jantzen No preview available - 2014 |
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abyss Adriana Cavarero allusions appropriation become a subject binary logic binary opposition birth body boundaries chapter child concepts copula creative culture d'une Derrida desire devenir dichotomies domination Elemental Passions Empedocles example exchange father female subject feminist flower fluid logic fluidity Freud gaze gender girl Hanneke Hanneke's Hegel Heidegger I-woman idea images infinity insistence interpretation Irigaray argues Irigaray's jouissance l'autre Lacanian language Law of Noncontradiction lèvres lips living Love and Strife Luce Irigaray male subject man's masculinist mastery means metaphors mirror mirror stage mother movement multiple mutual narrative not-A object paradigm Parmenides penis phallus possible psychoanalytic theory puissance Pythagoras question reader reality reflection relation relationship rigid binaries says sexually different subjects signifier silence song speak Speculum structure subject position suggest symbolic theme thinking thought touch tout truth virginity Western philosophy womb women words writings you-man