scholarly journals O silêncio necessário para o recolhimento: a mulher no limiar entre ser e não-ser

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-129
Author(s):  
Mariana Di Stella Piazzolla
Keyword(s):  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir

A ética levinasiana assume a mulher ou o feminino como alteridade discreta. A decisão por uma leitura elegendo um dos termos pode abrir para diferentes interpretações sobre a atribuição dessa alteridade, e isso suscitou um enorme interesse por teóricas feministas pela filosofia de Levinas, sendo Simone de Beauvoir uma das precursoras da crítica ao rebaixamento da mulher como Outro, continuada, de certa forma, por Luce Irigaray. Para compreender como essas críticas implicam na constituição de uma subjetividade oferecida a Outrem, decidimos iniciar pela análise do lugar que a mulher ocupa na ética levinasiana. Discutiremos desde a perspectiva da separação entre o ser e o ente, com objetivo de constituir o que sustenta uma aceitação de uma alteridade radical, tomando primeiramente o termo mulher como alteridade silenciosa, cuja posição intermediária entre ser e não-ser torna-se a condição para o recolhimento, e por conseguinte, indispensável para a relação ética. Em seguida, apresentaremos algumas questões que orbitam em torno da noção de feminino empregada por Levinas.

scholarly journals Feminist Responses to Freud Through the “Equality vs. Difference” Debate

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-52
Author(s):  
Feyda Sayan Cengiz
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Subject ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Biological Determinism ◽  
Freudian Psychoanalysis ◽  
The Difference

Freudian psychoanalysis has long been a matter of debate among feminists, and usually criticized for biological determinism. While discussing the Freudian framework, feminists have also been discussing how to define a female subject and the age old “equality vs. difference” discussion. This study discusses critical feminist responses to Freud which demonstrate the intricacies of the “equality vs. difference” debate amongst different strands of feminist theory. This article analyses three diverse lines of argumentation regarding psychoanalysis and the equality vs. difference debate by focusing on the works of Luce Irigaray, Simone de Beauvoir and Juliet Mitchell. Beauvoir and Irigaray both criticize the Freudian approach for taking “the male” as the real, essential subject. However, whereas Beauvoir sides with an egalitarian feminism, Irigaray defends underlining the difference of female sexuality. Juliet Mitchell, on the other hand, defends Freudian psychoanalysis through the argument that psychoanalysis actually offers a way to understand how the unconscious carries the heritage of historical and social reality. Accordingly, what Freudian psychoanalysis does is to analyze, rather than to legitimize, the basis of the patriarchal order in the unconscious.

The Question of the Subject and the Matter of Violence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Bergoffen
Keyword(s):  
Human Condition ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Second Sex ◽  
Phenomenological Account ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Abuse Of Women ◽  
The Human Condition

Negotiating the distance between Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray reveals that, despite their diverse starting points and philosophical commitments, they arrive at similar conclusions regarding the issue of violence against woman. Beauvoir’s existential–phenomenological account of the embodied vicissitudes of freedom and Irigaray’s psychoanalytic account of the bodied drives that structure human symbolic existence reveal that so long as women are signified as woman, the second sex (Beauvoir) and the power of masculine symbolic to silence all other articulations the human endures (Irigaray), men can and will imagine they are immune from the vulnerabilities of the human condition. Understanding the abuse of women throughout the ages and across the globe marks it as a symptom of the flight from vulnerability, identifies the high stakes of this flight, and directs us to develop strategies of resistance that, by resignifying the meaning of vulnerability, gets at the roots of the violence.

“I Am Not a Feminist, But…”: How Feminism Became the F-Word

PMLA ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 121 (5) ◽  
pp. 1735-1741 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toril Moi
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Michel Foucault ◽  
Thomas Kuhn ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Work Done ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist Theory ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist ◽  
Feminist Work

If PMIA invites us to reflect on the state of feminist theory today, it must be because there is a problem. Is feminist theory thought to be in trouble because feminism is languishing? Or because there is a problem with theory? Or—as it seems to me—both? Theory is a word usually used about work done in the poststructuralist tradition. (Luce Irigaray and Michel Foucault are “theory” Simone de Beauvoir and Ludwig Wittgenstein are not.) The poststructuralist paradigm is now exhausted. We are living through an era of “crisis,” as Thomas Kuhn would call it, an era in which the old is dying and the new has not yet been born (74–75). The fundamental assumptions of feminist theory in its various current guises (queer theory, postcolonial feminist theory, transnational feminist theory, psychoanalytic feminist theory, and so on) are still informed by some version of poststructuralism. No wonder, then, that so much feminist work today produces only tediously predictable lines of argument.

scholarly journals O Caderno de Maya, de Isabel Allende: uma leitura por dois caminhos

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 127
Author(s):  
Jozefh Fernando Soares Queiroz
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Lacan ◽  
The Other ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Isabel Allende ◽  
Helene Cixous ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
The One

Resumo: Este artigo tem como proposta apresentar duas trilhas de leitura analítica para a obra O Caderno de Maya (2011), da escritora chilena Isabel Allende. Se por um lado podemos ver o desenvolvimento da feminilidade da personagem por meio de sua inscrição na cultura local e pela conquista de um território feminino, por outro, podemos ver seu desenvolvimento interior, analisando a evolução de sua psique. Tais caminhos não se eliminam no decorrer da leitura e nos possibilitam ver a construção exterior e interior da personagem Maya. Neste entrelaçamento de teorias, dialogam os(as) teóricos(as) Simone de Beauvoir (2009), Hélène Cixous (2010), Luce Irigaray (1992), Jacques Lacan (1979) e Adrienne Rich (2017), entre outros(as).Palavras-chave: O Caderno de Maya; Isabel Allende; feminino; psique.Abstract: This article presents two possible ways of analyzing and reading Maya’s Notebook, by Chilean writer Isabel Allende (2011). On the one hand, we can see the development of the femininity of a character through her inscription in the local culture and the conquest of a female territory; on the other, we can see the character’s inner development, analyzing the evolution of her psyche. Such paths are not eliminated along the reading and enable us to see the external and internal of Maya’s character. In this interlink of theories, theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir (2009), Hélène Cixous (2010), Luce Irigaray (1992), Jacques Lacan (1979), and Adrienne Rich (2017), among others, dialogue. Keywords: Maya’s notebook; Isabel Allende; female; psyche. 

Differences

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Do So ◽  
Critical Investigation ◽  
Ethics And Politics

In spite of the affinities of work by Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray, rarely are their projects productively put into dialogue. This groundbreaking volume is the first book-length work to attempt to do so. In so doing, it moves beyond the terms of a simple opposition: that Beauvoir advocates for a humanistic equality of subjects while Irigaray advocates for an exploration of the inherently sexuate specificity of bodies. Until now the strength of this oppositional reading has prevented scholars from asking what they have in common. To read Beauvoir and Irigaray together in a way that does justice to the work of both requires a continuation of efforts to read Beauvoir anew. This task of rereading Beauvoir thus constitutes the first section of the volume, essays that offer an unprecedented exploration of the place of the material and the corporeal in Beauvoir’s thought. These essays situate Beauvoir’s thought beyond the framework of a theory of gender and beyond the framework of humanism. The essays in the second section of the volume take up the challenge of articulating points of dialogue in logic, ethics, and politics. Rather than forming a consensus or polarization either between Beauvoir and Irigaray or among each other, these essays deepen our understanding of the most familiar aspects and renew critical investigation of underappreciated moments of the work of these thinkers.

scholarly journals La mujer-filósofo o la más “antinatural” de las criaturas. En torno a Simone de Beauvoir y a su obra El segundo sexo

2016 ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
María José Guerra Palmero
Keyword(s):  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Las Mujeres

El presente artículo analiza el carácter pionero de una de las obras clave del feminismo, El segundo sexo (1949), contribución fundamental a la filosofía feminista actual y primer marco teórico del feminismo de segunda ola. En este trabajo se analizarán los empleos de la categoría de alteridad para referirla a la existencia de las mujeres. El objetivo principal de la obra de Beauvoir es explicarnos y explicitarnos las condiciones de esa vida femenina expropiada y obligada a permanecer en la mera inmanencia. A partir de esta cuestión emergerá en el feminismo de la segunda ola la conceptualización constructivista de “género”. Exploramos, en segundo lugar, la recepción crítica de la obra de Simone de Beauvoir. La falta de reconocimiento, el descrédito y los prejuicios sexistas imposibilitaron hasta casi tres décadas después de su publicación su justa estimación crítica. Finalmente, se presta atención al des/encuentro entre dos generaciones de feministas francesas que representan la propia Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray y Michelle Le Doeuff.

scholarly journals Pour une nouvelle lecture de la question de la « femme » : essai à partir de la pensée de Jacques Derrida

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Godard
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Luce Irigaray ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
De Se

Résumé Les propos de cet essai constituent une tentative de questionnement et de désamorcement de ce qui travaille souterrainement la mise en place des présupposés propres aux discours féministes. Cette entreprise aura au passage convoqué, interpellé — au moins — trois protagonistes principaux : Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray et Jacques Derrida. L'étonnement qui peut surgir face à cette rencontre inattendue ne saurait égaler celui qui survient devant la possibilité d'une nouvelle lecture de la question de la femme, autre que celle qui alimente, nourrit les discours des deux auteures précédemment mentionnées. Possibilité qu'ouvre le texte derridien et qui ici tente de se dire.

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