Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary traced by the oceans. Dimensions installed by a cosmogonic trilogy that leaves each term in its generic place. There remains the earth ancestress, a fourth term, that was once the most fertile, that has been progressively buried and forgotten beneath the architectonic of patriarchal sovereignty. And this murder erupts in the form of ambivalences that have constantly to be solved and hierarchized, in twinned pairs of more or less good doubles.
Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not … - Luce Irigaray
Nature is a universal that is shareable by all, males and females, men and women, and can thus be of use in mediating between all. The same does not …
- Luce Irigaray
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary tra… - Luce Irigaray
Between gods and men, territories are set up. At least in the no-man’s land of the heights of heaven, the depths of hell, and inside the boundary tra…
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be. - Luce Irigaray
Be what you are becoming without clinging to what you might have been; what you might yet be.
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life. - Luce Irigaray
Breathing, according to me, corresponds to taking charge of one's own life.
letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be. - Luce Irigaray
letting be is as important as mastering. Our tradition has encouraged us to be effective, to make or fabricate but not to let be born or let be.
Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as … - Luce Irigaray
Self-affection is the real dwelling to which we must always return with a view to a faithfulness to ourselves and an ability to welcome the other as …
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for de… - Luce Irigaray
Death is the real inspiring genius or Musagetes of philosophy, and for this reason Socrates defined philosophy as thanatou mélétè (preparation for de…
Every desire has a relation to madness. - Luce Irigaray
Every desire has a relation to madness.
Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through. - Luce Irigaray
Sexual difference is probably the issue in our time which could be our 'salvation' if we thought it through.
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