To Speak is Never Neutral

Luce Irigaray is Director of Research in Philosophy at the Centre National de la Recherch Scientifique, Paris.

• 1. Introduction. 2. Linguistic and Specular Communication. 3. Negation and Negative Transformations in the Language of Schizophrenics. 4. Towards a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives. 5. On Phantasm and the Verb. 6. Linguistic Structures of Kinship and Their Perturbations in Schizophrenia. 7. Sentence Production Among Schizophrenics and Senile Dementia Patients. 8. The Utterance in Analysis. 9. Class Language, Unconscious Language. 10. The Rape of the Letter. 11. Sex as Sign. 12. Idiolect or Other Logic. 13. Does Schizophrenic Discourse Exist? 14. Schizophrenics, Or the Refusal of Schiz. 15. The Setting in Psychoanalysis. 16. The Poverty of Psychoanalysis. 17. The Language of Man. 18. The Limits of Transference. 19. In Science, Is the Subject Sexed?

"To Speak is Never Neutral is a most important and thought-provoking contribution to our understanding of how scientific language functions. Dispelling once and for all the notion that scientific language is objective, Luce Irigaray unveils the gendered - and, crucially, the prejudicial - dimensions of a range of psychoanalytic discourses. Challenging and provocative, this book is also a significant ethical intervention into debates both about how we speak today and about how content itself is never neutral." - Michael Worton, University College London