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Irigaray on the Problem of Subjectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ofelia Schutte
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Abstract

In Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), Luce Irigaray argues that “any theory of the subject has always been appropriated by the masculine.” This paper offers an analysis of Irigaray's critique of subjectivity and examines the psychological mechanism referred to as “the phallic economy of castration.” A different way of conceiving the relation between subject and object is explored by imagining a new subject of desire.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 64 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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Footnotes

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An earlier version of this paper was read at the Second International Meeting of Philosophical Feminism, sponsored by the Argentine Association of Women in Philosophy, Buenos Aires, November 1989. It was published in the association's journal Hiparquia 3:1 (1990) in Spanish translation by M.L. Femenías under the title “Irigaray y el problema de la subjetividad.”

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