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Crossing Lovers: Luce Irigaray's Elemental Passions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Cecilia Sjöholm
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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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Hypatia , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , Summer 2000, pp. 92 - 112
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Copyright © 2000 by Hypatia, Inc.

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