Luce Irigaray

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

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Magnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Synthesis, Stabilization, Vectorization, Physicochemical Characterizations, and Biological Applications
· 2008 · cited 6,090x
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger<sup>*</sup>
· 2017 · cited 3,592x
Constructive Consumer Choice Processes
· 1998 · cited 2,020x
An Expanded Definition of the Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
· 1988 · cited 1,911x
The Myofibroblast
· 2007 · cited 1,794x

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“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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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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date of birth: 1930-05-03
name in native language: Luce Irigaray
Academia.edu profile URL: www.academia.edu/People/Luce_Irigaray
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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.