Quotes by Luce Irigaray

About Luce Irigaray:

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst, 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).
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Your silence exists as does my self gathering. But so does the almost absolute silence of the world's dawning. In such suspension, before every utterance on earth, there is a cloud, an almost immobile air. The plants already breathe, while we still a...

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The human in what it is objectively ever since its beginning is two, two who are different. Each part of what constitutes the unity of the human species corresponds to a proper being and a proper Being, to an identity of one's own. In order to carry ...

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The ultimate reality from which the path of this becoming could start off again will no longer rest on a ground of 'causa sui.' in any case the sense of a God who would alone be capable of giving an account of self. It is rather from the human and fr...

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Why only one song, one speech, one text at a time?" - "When Our Lips Speak Together

Luce Irigaray

Author Bio

  • NameLuce Irigaray
  • Descriptionfeminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist
  • BornMay 3, 1930
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionPhilosopher; Linguist