In the beginning, she was /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Irigaray, Luce
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1.Introduction: The ecstasy of the between-us
  • The forgetting of her
  • A between-us on hold in the beyond
  • The closure of the same
  • How to escape opening
  • A world both open and closed
  • The human being as a being in relation
  • 2.When life still was
  • The impossible mastery of natural growth
  • Enveloped within his own language
  • A world from which women, mystery, wonder withdraw
  • A logical dualism supplants a natural duality
  • 3.A being created without regard for his being born
  • Engendered by two who are different, he confronts opposites
  • The alternation between the limit and the unlimited
  • Multiple, she is also one
  • Neither animal nor god, but not yet man
  • 4.The wandering of man
  • A becoming cut off from its carnal source
  • Torn apart, man projects himself onto the beyond
  • The sacred character of the master-disciple relation
  • The forgetting of an elusive origin
  • 5.Between myth and history: The tragedy of Antigone
  • Sharing Antigone's tragic fate
  • Respect for life and cosmic order
  • Respect for generational order
  • Respect for sexuate differentiation
  • An insurmountable tragedy
  • 6.The return
  • For what does Western man feel nostalgic?
  • Self-affection in the masculine
  • Self-affection in the feminine
  • Self-affection needs to be two.