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Luce Irigaray

Author of This Sex Which Is Not One

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About the Author

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris

Works by Luce Irigaray

This Sex Which Is Not One (1977) 528 copies
Speculum of the Other Woman (2002) 371 copies
Elemental Passions (1982) 66 copies
Sexes and Geneologies (1833) 58 copies
To Be Two (1994) 44 copies
To Speak is Never Neutral (1985) 38 copies
Thinking The Difference (1994) 21 copies
In the Beginning, She Was (2012) 15 copies
Why Different? (1999) 14 copies
Le temps de la différence (1989) 12 copies
Sharing the World (2008) 10 copies
Luce Irigaray: Teaching (2008) 7 copies
Conversations (2008) 6 copies
Baslangicta Kadin Vardi (2022) 3 copies
Essere due (1994) 2 copies
Die Zeit des Atems (1999) 2 copies
La Croyance même (1983) 1 copy
Ben Sen Biz (2006) 1 copy

Associated Works

Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Contributor — 168 copies
Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the Feminine (1991) — Associated Name — 27 copies
Feminist Interpretations of Plato (1994) — Contributor — 19 copies
Feminist Interpretations of Aristotle (1998) — Contributor — 18 copies
Naisen tieto (1989) 7 copies

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Other names
IRIGARAY, Luce
Birthdate
1930-05-03
Gender
female
Nationality
Belgium
Birthplace
Bernissart, Belgium
Places of residence
Belgium (birth)
Paris, France
Education
Catholic University of Louvain (M.A.|1955)
University of Paris VIII-Vincennes (Ph.D|1974|Philosophy)
University of Paris X-Nanterre (Ph.D|1968|Linguistics)
Ecole Freudienne de Paris
Institut de Psychologie de Paris (Dipl.|1962)
University of Paris (M.A.|1961|Psychology)
Occupations
psychoanalyst
philosopher
linguist
cultural theorist
Organizations
Centre national de la recherche scientifique
Short biography
Luce Irigaray does not like to answer questions about her personal life. However, it is known that she was born in French-speaking Belgium, and graduated from the University of Louvain (Catholic University of Leuven) in 1955. She taught at a high school in Brussels from 1956 to 1959. In 1960, she moved to Paris to obtain another master's degree in psychology from the University of Paris-Vincennes. There she also earned a Diploma in Psychopathology in 1962 and a Ph.D. in Linguistics in 1968. In the 1960s, she attended the École Freudienne de Paris, directed by psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. She has held a research post at the Centre national de recherche scientifiques since 1964; she is now a director of research in Philosophy. She published her second doctoral thesis, Speculum, de l’autre femme (Speculum of the Other Woman) in 1974; it caused an uproar within the Lacanian school in France and led to her losing her position at the University of Vincennes as well as being expelled from the École Freudienne. She went on to become a prolific and influential writer and philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, and cultural theorist. Her work often examines the uses and misuses of language in relation to women. In 1977, she published another well-known book, Ce sexe qui n'en est pas un (This Sex Which Is Not One).

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a noble condemnation of "feminine" anthropoids. an uneven read, but still good.
 
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schumacherrr | Feb 21, 2022 |
A masterwork of negative philosophy. Irigaray manages to camouflage herself as her philosophical opponents, expounding their views straightforwardly but allowing a mocking echo to resound in the reader's mind. The web of concepts that she is able to stitch together from centuries of philosophy is seriously impressive. I enjoyed every bit of this book.
 
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