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Luce Irigaray

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January 01, 1932 in Belgium

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Luce Irigaray (born 1932 Belgium) is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1977).

Irigaray received a Master's Degree in Philosophy & Arts from the University of Louvain (Leuven) in 1955. She taught in a Brussels school from 1956-1959. She moved to France in the early 1960s. In 1961 she received a Master's Degree in psychology from the University of Paris. In 1962 she received a Diploma in Psychopathology. From 1962-1964 she worked for the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) in Belgium. She then began work as a research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Sci...more Luce Irigaray (born 1932 Belgium) is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalytic, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex Which Is Not One (1977).

Irigaray received a Master's Degree in Philosophy & Arts from the University of Louvain (Leuven) in 1955. She taught in a Brussels school from 1956-1959. She moved to France in the early 1960s. In 1961 she received a Master's Degree in psychology from the University of Paris. In 1962 she received a Diploma in Psychopathology. From 1962-1964 she worked for the Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) in Belgium. She then began work as a research assistant at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.

In the 1960s Irigaray participated in Jacques Lacan's psychoanalytic seminars. She trained as and became an analyst. In 1968 she received a Doctorate in Linguistics. In 1969 she analysed Antoinette Fouque, a leader of the French women's movement. From 1970-1974 she taught at the University of Vincennes. At this time Irigaray was a member of the École Freudienne de Paris (EFP), a school directed by Lacan.

Irigaray's second Doctorate thesis, "Speculum of the Other Woman," was closely followed by the termination of her employment at Vincennes University.

In the second semester of 1982, Irigaray held the chair in Philosophy at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. Her research here resulted in the publication of An Ethics of Sexual Difference.

Irigaray has conducted research since the 1980s at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris on the difference between the language of women and the language of men. In 1986 she transferred from the Psychology Commission to the Philosophy Commission as the latter is her preferred discipline.

In December 2003, Luce Irigaray was awarded the degree of Doctor of Literature honoris causa by the University of London. From 2004-2006, Irigaray was a visiting professor in the department of Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham. As of 2007, she will be affiliated with the University of Liverpool.

In 2008, Luce Irigaray was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Literature by University College, London.

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Average rating: 3.92 · 953 ratings · 73 reviews · 39 distinct works

	This Sex Which Is Not One by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke (Translator), Catherine Porter (Translator) 4.01 avg rating — 416 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Speculum of the Other Woman by Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. Gill (Translator) 3.93 avg rating — 143 ratings — published 1974 — 5 editions	My rating:
	An Ethics of Sexual Difference 4.00 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Je, Tu, Nous: Toward a Culture of Difference by Luce Irigaray, Alison Martin (Translator) 3.68 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:
	I Love to You: Sketch of a Possible Felicity in History 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Way of Love by Luce Irigaray, Stephen Pluhacek (Translator), Heidi Bostic (Translator) 4.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by Luce Irigaray, Gillian C. Gill (Translator) 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	To Be Two by Luce Irigaray, Marco F. Cocito-Monoc (Translator), Monique Rhodes (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Forgetting of Air in Martin Heidegger by Luce Irigaray, Mary Beth Mader (Translator) 4.19 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Luce Irigaray: Key Writings 3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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“Each sex has a relation to madness. Every desire has a relation to madness. But it would seem that one desire has been taken as wisdom, moderation, truth, leaving to the other sex the weight of a madness that cannot be acknowledged or accommodated.”
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“Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.”
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“...more than other senses, the eye objectifies and masters. it sets at a distance, maintains the distance. in our culture, the predominance of the look over smell, taste, touch, hearing, has brought about an improverishment of bodily relations...the moment domin ates the look dominates, the body loses its materiality” -luce irigaray”
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