Article(electronic)July 2000

Crossing Lovers: Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions

In: Hypatia: a journal of feminist philosophy, Volume 15, Issue 3, p. 92-112

Sjöholm, Cecilia

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Abstract

Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions could be read as a response to Merleau-Ponty's article "The Intertwining—The Chiasm" in The Visible and the Invisible. Like Merleau-Ponty, Irigaray describes corporeal intertwining or vision and touch. Counteracting the narcissistic strain in Merleau-Ponty's chiasm, she assumes that sexual difference must precede the intertwining. The subject is marked by the alterity or the "more than one" and encoded as a historically contingent gendered conflict.

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English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

ISSN: 1527-2001

DOI

10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb00332.x

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