Irigaray and Politics

Laura Roberts is Lecturer in Philosophy and Gender Studies at the University of Queensland.

• Introduction1. Beyond Freud and LacanThe Psychoanalytic Critique Of Western ThoughtFreud’s Unconscious PhantasyLacan’s Mirror StageA Culture of NarcissismMelanie Klein and Projective IdentificationBéla Grunberger and the Masculine ImaginaryPsychoanalysing the Psychoanalysts: Irigaray on Freud’s ‘Femininity’The Culture of Narcissism as Social Critique2. Feminine Imaginaries: Rhythmic Becoming and Labial LogicsPhilosophical Myths: Refiguring western space-timeLanguage and Subjectivity: Labial Logics and Placental Economies3. Feminine Genealogies and Feminine SubjectivityCultural Myth: Mother-daughter relations and Woman-to-woman socialityReligious Myth: A Feminine DivineNew Politics and Sexuate Rights4. Within and Between us: Irigaray’s DialecticsTracing the Dialectic – Irigaray with HegelDiotima’s Dialectic – Refiguring Love, Within and Between UsThe Interval of BreathI Love to You: The Failure of Hegel’s Labour of LoveListening and Wonder5. Luce Irigaray with Gayatri SpivakFrench Feminism in an International Frame (1981)French Feminism Revisited (1993)Levinas and The Fecundity of the CaressThe Impossible Intimacy of the Ethical6. A Politics of ProximityMarxist Feminist Critique Of The FamilyRefounding The FamilyIntercultural CouplesPolitics of the CommonWhere to Now? New International MunicipalismBarcelona en Comú & The Feminisation of PoliticsIn ConclusionAfterword

Laura Roberts, building on a critique of Western narcissism, a revolutionary ontology of space and time, and a "double dialectic" based in sexual difference, provides an exciting new reading of Between East and West that strikes a path towards an Irigarayan philosophy and politics of multiple difference(s) and intersectionality.