IRIGARAY LUCE

(P/B) SPECULUM OF THE OTHER WOMAN
Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray is incontestably one of the most important works in feminist theory to have been published in this generation. For the profession of psychoanalysis, Irigaray believes, female sexuality has remained a "dark continent," unfathomable and unapproachable; its nature can only be misunderstood by those who continue to regard women in masculine terms. In the first section of the book, "The Blind Spot of an Old Dream of Symmetry," Irigaray rereads Freud's essay "Femininity," and his other writings on wom...
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(P/B) JE, TU, NOUS
A passionate celebrator of "sexual difference," Luce Irigaray was never simply after the social equality that her generation so publicly demanded. She was seeking more fundamentally a society that celebrated the differences between the genders and their coming together in a union without hierarchy. As she formulates it in this compellingly readable introduction to her own thought, Irigaray is writing about how "I" and "You" become "We." Exploring along the way women's experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty indu...
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(P/B) A NEW CULTURE OF ENERGY
In A New Culture of Energy, Luce Irigaray reflects on three critical concerns of our time: the cultivation of energy in its many forms, the integration of Asian and Western traditions, and the reenvisioning of religious figures for the contemporary world. A philosopher as well as a psychoanalyst, Irigaray draws deeply on her personal experience in addressing these questions. In her view, although psychoanalysis can succeed in releasing mental energy, it fails to support physical and spiritual well-being. In pursuit of an alternative, she t...
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Ο ΔΡΟΜΟΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΓΑΠΗΣ
Πώς μπορούμε να αγαπήσουμε ο ένας τον άλλο; Μια κορυφαία φιλόλογος, η Λυς Ιριγκαρέ, θέτει και απαντά αυτό το ερώτημα μέσα από μια μοναδική εξερεύνηση της επιθυμίας, της γλώσσας και των ανθρώπινων σχέσεων από τη σκοπιά της σεξουαλικής διαφοράς, που είναι ίσως το θεμελιακό ερώτημα της εποχής μας. Αν η δυτική φιλοσοφία θέλησε να είναι αγάπη της σοφίας, λησμόνησε ωστόσο να γίνει σοφία της αγάπης. Μας λείπουν ακόμα οι λέξεις, οι χειρονομίες, οι τρόποι δράσης και σκέψης για να πλησιάσουμε ο ένας τον άλλο, να έρθουμε σε διάλογο, να φτιάξουμε ένα...
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(P/B) I LOVE TO YOU
In this book, one of the foremost contemporary scholars in the fields of feminist thought and linguistics, explores the possibility of a new liberating language and hence a new relationship between the sexes. In I Love to You, Luce Irigaray moves from the critique of patriarchy to an exploration of the ground for a possible inter-subjectivity between the two sexes. Continuing her rejection of demands for equality, Irigaray poses the question: how can we move to a new era of sexual difference in which women and men establish lasting relatio...
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(H/B) SHARING THE WORLD
In this important new book, Luce Irigaray, one of France's most influential contemporary theorists, turns once again to the concept of otherness. We are accustomed to considering the other as an individual among others without paying sufficient attention to the particular world or specific culture to which this other belongs. 'Otherness' is thus subjected to our own values and the other remains our companion, ultimately regarded as the same as us. The difference between us is only evaluated in a quantitative, and not a qualitative, way and...
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(P/B) THIS SEX WHICH IS NOT ONE
In This Sex Which Is Not One, Luce Irigaray elaborates on some of the major themes of Speculum of the Other Woman, her landmark work on the status of woman in Western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. In eleven acute and widely ranging essays, Irigaray reconsiders the question of female sexuality in a variety of contexts that are relevant to current discussion of feminist theory and practice. Among the topics she treats are the implications of the thought of Freud and Lacan for understanding womanhood and articulating a...
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(P/B) WHY DIFFERENT?