Luce Irigaray

Speculum of the Other Woman

Übersetzer: Gill, Gillian

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Produktbeschreibung

A radically subversive critique brings to the fore the masculine ideology implicit in psychoanalytic theory and in Western discourse in general: woman is defined as a disadvantaged man, a male construct with no status of her own.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780801493300
• ISBN-10: 0801493307
• Artikelnr.: 22017367

Autorenporträt

Luce Irigaray. translated by Gillian Gill

Inhaltsangabe

THE BLIND SPOT OF AN OLD DREAM OF SYMMETRYWoman, Science's Unknown How Can They Immediately Be So Sure?
The Anatomical Model
A Science That Still Cannot Make Up Its Mind
A Question of Method
What Is Involved in (Re) production, and How It Aids and Abets the Phallic Order
A Difference Not Taken into Account
The Labor "to Become a Woman"The Little Girl Is (Only) a Little Boy An Inferior Little Man
The Cards Turned Over
The Dream Interpreters Themselves
Penis Masturbation: A Necessarily Phallic Auto-eroticism
The Change of "Object" or the Crisis of a Devaluation
The Law of the Self-same Is Her End in Her Beginning? An Unsuspected Love
The Desire to Have a Child by the Mother
The Father's Seduction: Law but Not Sex
The "Reasons" Why a Girl Hates Her Mother and a Boy Goes on Loving His
An Economy of Primal Desire That Cannot Be Represented
One More ChildAnother "Cause"-Castration As Might Be Expected
The Gaze, Always at Stake
Anatomy Is "Destiny"
What the Father's Discourse Covers Up
The Negative in Phallocentric Dialectic
Is Working Out the Death Drives Limited to Men Only?"Penis-Envy" Waiting in Vain
An Indirect Sublimation
"Envy" or "Desire" for the Penis?
Repression, or Inexorable Censorship?
Mimesis ImposedA Painful Way to Become a Woman And the Father, Neutral and Benevolent, Washes His Hands of the Matter
A (Female) A-Sex?
Is the Oedipus Complex Universal or Not?
Free Association on OnanismA Very Black Sexuality? Symptoms Almost Like Those of Melancholia
A Setback She Cannot Mourn
That Open Wound That Draws Everything to Itself
That Necessary Remainder: HysteriaThe Penis = the Father's Child The Primacy of Anal Erotism
Those Party to a Certain Lease
Woman Island Also Mother
Forbidden Games
The Hymen of Oedipus, Father and SonThe Deferred Action of Castration Capitalism without Complexes
The Metaphorical Veil of the Eternal Feminine
The Other Side of History
The Submission of a Slave?
A Super-ego That Rather Despises the Female SexAn Indispensable Wave of Passivity A Redistribution of Partial Instincts, Especially Sadistic-anal Instincts
"There Is Only One Libido"
Idealization, What Is One's Own
The (Re)productive Organ
Confirmation of FrigidityFemale Hom(m)osexuality The "Constitutional Factor" Is Decisive
Homosexual Choice Clearly Expounded
A Cure Fails for Lack of Transference(s)
Female SamenessAn Impracticable Sexual Relationship An Ideal Love
Were It Not for Her Mother?
Or Her Mother-in-law?
Squaring the Family Circle
Generation Gap, or Being Historically out of Phase?
Woman's Enigmatic Bisexuality"Woman Is a Woman as a Result of a Certain Lack of Characteristics" An Ex-orbitant Narcissism
The Vanity of a Commodity
The Shame That Demands Vicious Conformity
Women Have Never Invented Anything but Weaving
A Very Envious Nature
Society Holds No Interest for Women
A Fault in Sublimation
"La Femme de Trente Ans"SPECULUM Any Theory of the "Subject" Has Always Been Appropriated by the "Masculine" Kore: Young Virgin, Pupil of the Eye On the Index of Plato's Works: Woman How to Conceive (of) a Girl Une Mère de Glace "... and if, taking the eye of a man recently dead... " La Mystérique Paradox A Priori The Eternal Irony of the Community Volume-FluidityPLATO'S HysteriaThe Stage Setup Turned Upside-down and Back-to-front
Special Status for the Side Opposite
A Fire in the Image of a Sun
The Forgotten Path
Paraphragm/Diaphragm
The Magic Show
A Waste of Time?
A Specular CaveThe Dialogues One Speaks, the Others Are Silent
Like Ourselves, They Submit to a Like Principle of Identity
Provided They Have a Head, Turned in the Right Direction
What Is = What They See, and Vice Versa
The A-letheia, a Necessary Denegation among Men
Even Her Voice Is Taken Away from Echo
A Double Topographic Error, Its ConsequencesThe Avoidance of (Masculine) Hysteria A Hypnotic Method
That Buries and Forbids "Madness"
A Remainder of Aphasia
The Misprison of Difference
The Unreflected Dazzle of Seduction The "Way Out" of the Cave The "Passage"
A Difficult Delivery
Then Whence and How Does He Get Out?
A World Peopled by GhostsThe Time Needed to Focus and Adjust the Vision Impossible to Turn Back (or Over)
Were It Not, Right Now, for a Sophistry Played with Doubles
A Frozen Nature
The Auto... Taken in by the A-letheia
Bastard or Legitimate Offspring?The Father's Vision: Engendering with No History of Problems A Hymen of Glass/Ice
The Unbegotten Begetter
Exorcism of the Dark Night
Astrology as Thaumaturgy: A Semblance (of a) Sun
A Question of PropertyA Form That Is Always the Same The Passage Confusing Big and Little, and Vice Versa
The Standard Itself/Himself
Better to Revolve upon Oneself-But This Is Possible Only for God-the-Father
The Mother, Happily, Does Not Remember
A Source-mirror of All That Is
The Analysis of That Projection Will Never Take (or Have Taken) PlaceCompletion of the Paideia The Failings of an Organ That Is Still Too Sensible
A Seminar in Good Working Order
An Immaculate Conception
The Deferred Action of an Ideal Jouissance
The End of ChildhoodLife in Philosophy Always the Same (He)
An Autistic Completeness
Love Turned Away from Inferior Species and Genera/Gender
The Privilege of the Immortals
The Science of Desire
A Kore Dilated to the Whole Field of the Gaze and Mirroring HerselfDivine Knowledge The Back Reserved for God
The Divine Mystery
This Power Cannot Be Imitated by Mortals
How, Then, Can They Evaluate Their Potency?
Except over Someone Like Themselves?
The Father Knows the Front Side and Back Side of Everything, at Least in Theory
The Meaning of Death for a PhilosopherAn Unarticulated/Inarticulate Go-Between: The Split between Sensible and Intelligible A Failure of Relations between the Father and Mother
A One-way Passage
Compulsory Participation in the Attributes of the Type
A Misprized Incest and an Unrealizable IncestReturn to the Name of the Father The Impossible Regression toward the Mother
A Competition the Philosopher Will Decline to Enter
Two Modes of Repetition: Property and Proximity
Better to Work the Earth on the Father's Account Than to Return to It: Metaphor/Metonymy
The Threat of Castration"Woman's" Jouissance A Dead Cave Which Puts Representation Back into Play
That Marvelously Solitary Pleasure of God
A Diagonal Helps to Temper the Excessiveness of the One
The Infinite of an Ideal Which Covers the Slit (of a) Void
Losing Sight of "the Other"
The Vengeance of Children Freed from Their Chains