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Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray
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GO Speculum of the Other Woman Author: Luce Irigaray Type: eBook. Though intended as a compliment, it's still an act of violence against the defenceless picture of a woman. In 1974, a Belgian feminist named Luce Irigaray published a volume called Speculum Of The Other Woman. In this 'virtual' space, I am not one. Irigaray's notoriously difficult text includes a long engagement with medieval mystics, including reference to Angela of Floligno. The idea that a 'nothing to be seen'… might have some reality, would be intolerable to man. [6] Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other woman (Speculum de l'autre femme, 1974), Cornell University Press 1985. Language: English Released: 1985. The Speculum of the Other Woman. Irigaray in the Speculum of the Other Woman talks of this. The phrase "baggy monster" couldn't be a more appropriate epithet for Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman: a still controversial and poorly understood (but much quoted and referenced) work. Felman also nods to Irigaray's "Speculum of the Other Woman"--that woman is the dichotomous opposite of man in logocentric logic (the predominance of logos over writing). Cornell University Press, 1985. The tome provoked the wrath of followers of Jacques Lacan, from whose camp Irigaray departed with this work.