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Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist (born 1930)

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Luce Irigaray is a Belgian and French philosopher, linguist, university teacher, and women's rights activist. Born in Blaton in 1930, she has worked in the field of gender studies. Her academic background includes education at the Catholic University of Leuven and Paris 8 University. She has been employed by the National Center for Scientific Research and Erasmus University Rotterdam. Additionally, she is a member of the École Freudienne de Paris.

Irigaray speaks French as her native language. Her professional work locations have included Leuven and Paris.

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Quotes

  • In the movement of the proteron te phusei may be found the heart of thought, that which remains veiled in what thought says and which speaking obeys as some secret command. But already, when it speaks, thought no longer speaks what moves it. It no longer retains that emotion even as a fault of speech, as a dark night out of which it would expect to burst forth. Thought excludes the heart that moves it. That which makes thought live is spoiled, set outside of it. But it does not know this.

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Key facts

Born
( 1930-05-03 ) 3 May 1930 (age 96) , Blaton , Wallonia, Belgium
Alma mater
Catholic University of Louvain , University of Paris , Institut de Psychologie de Paris , University of Paris VIII , University of Paris X
Doctoral advisor
Jean Dubois , François Châtelet
Era
Contemporary philosophy
Region
Western philosophy
School
Continental philosophy , Difference feminism , Post-structural feminism , French feminism
Institutions
CNRS , University of Paris VIII, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Main interests
Linguistics , psychoanalysis , feminist philosophy , gender identity , ethics
Notable ideas
Ethics of sexual difference , criticism of phallogocentric arguments , "women on the market"

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human
Gender
female
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Blaton
Occupation
feminist
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Field of work
gender studies
Work location
Paris
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date of birth
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name in native language
Luce Irigaray
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Encyclopedic overview

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. She is considered one of the founders of French difference feminism.

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), which discusses Lacan's work as well as political economy; Elemental Passions (1982) can be read as a response to Maurice Merleau-Ponty's article “The Intertwining—The Chiasm” in The Visible and the Invisible, 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.

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