Myths, Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity in Irigaray

Green, Laura

doi:10.16995/sim.48

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“…Irigaray connects the double negation of the mother with the constitution of the phallic father as the signifier of social law (Irigaray 1991, 36). This law justifies and naturalizes women's banishment from Western culture (Green 2012, 3–4). Phallocentrism also coalesces the father, as a model of subjectivity, with his role as the head of the patriarchal family and as a political leader.…”

Section: Matricide As a Psychosocial Formationmentioning

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Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care

Rozmarin,

Simhi

2023

Hypatia

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The concept of matricide theorizes the marginal position of the mother within a phallocentric and patriarchal society from a psychoanalytic perspective. This article seeks to contribute to the understanding of transformative nonmatricidal processes by analyzing the relations between the psychic and political aspects of these processes. We argue that nonmatricidal spaces can be created through the mobilization of a maternal affect as a care practice that transgresses social and normative boundaries. By reading the biblical story of Moses's birth and childhood, we depict the emergence of a nonmatricidal space and the ways in which this space defies and disturbs social boundaries forced by a heteronormative, phallocentric, and patriarchal law. We draw on Luce Irigaray's and Kelly Oliver's concept of a “loving look” to theorize how maternal affect is mobilized as an ethical and a political commitment, which affirms alternative positions of subjectivity and agency. We conclude by arguing that an integrated account of nonmatricidal relational spaces and maternal radical care practices might offer a wider understanding of the political effects of maternal politics as radical care practices.

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Section: Matricide As a Psychosocial Formationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care

Rozmarin,

Simhi

2023

Hypatia

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Miyazaki’s monstrous mother: a study of Yubaba in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away

Papastavros

2021

Feminist Media Studies

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The Non/Inhuman Within: Beyond the Biopolitical Intrauterine Imaginary

McCloskey

2021

Studies in Gender and Sexuality

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In the context of the increasingly entangled, devastating markers of this time (climate crises, unfettered capitalism, tribal nationalism, increasing borders, species extinction), this article stakes a claim for the importance of attending to the human intrauterine as a way to connect with non/inhuman alterity. It is argued that the intrauterine phenomenon, as a process experienced by all humans, has a part to play in understanding "humanness," human connectedness to nonhumanness, which can be used as part of a wider strategy to reimagine collaboratively and with co-response-ability ways to live and survive within multispecies landscapes. Methodologically, Karen Barad's diffractive approach is used to explore the intrauterine as a time-space of affect and connection between the human and nonhuman. With this approach, the article assembles selected philosophers, alongside a rereading of Mary Kelly's Antepartum (1973) in the proposal of an intrauterine imaginary unhitched from the biopolitical. In doing so, it seeks to redraw some of the boundaries around the intrauterine imaginary, to propose how paying attention to the non/inhuman of the human intrauterine might generate images and ideas of connections and co-response-ability beyond birth, between humans and more than humans.When I say "Alice becomes larger," I mean that she becomes larger than she was. By the same token, however, she becomes smaller than she is now. Certainly, she is not bigger and smaller at the same time. She is larger now; she was smaller before. But it is at the same moment that one becomes larger than one was and smaller than one becomes. This is the simultaneity of a becoming whose characteristic is to elude the present.

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Myths, Matricide and Maternal Subjectivity in Irigaray

Cited by 6 publications

References 3 publications

Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care

Undoing Matricide as Maternal Radical Care

Miyazaki’s monstrous mother: a study of Yubaba in Studio Ghibli’s Spirited Away

The Non/Inhuman Within: Beyond the Biopolitical Intrauterine Imaginary

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