This Sex Which is Not One

Irigaray, Luce

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“…René Girard (1973), for example, criticises Lévi-Strauss for developing an elaborate account of minimal difference and exchange, but for neglecting to consider in any detail the undifferentiated state apparently prior to such minimal difference: the 'undifferentiated is present in his analyses but as that precisely and nothing more, as a mere starting point which is never questioned for its own sake' (p. 34). Luce Irigaray (1975Irigaray ( , 1985 marks her confusion: 'Without the exchange of women, we are told, we would fall back into the anarchy (?) of the natural world, the randomness (?)…”

Section: Transforming the Deathly Symmetrymentioning

confidence: 96%

Autonomy, equality and ‘the smallest possible difference’ in Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Duschinsky

2015

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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Framed as a critique of the neoliberal dream of autonomy and a re-evaluation of the meaning of equality, this article will explore Mitchell's account of 'the smallest of differences which is necessary to inaugurate society'. At the social level, this minimal difference is the interaction between kinship relations and reproductive processes. Yet Mitchell argues that 'the establishment of difference is also that which is absolutely crucial at an individual level': an orchestration of life and death drives into the movement of the human infant within and beyond narcissism, establishing a self and discovering difference and the world.

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Section: Transforming the Deathly Symmetrymentioning

confidence: 96%

Autonomy, equality and ‘the smallest possible difference’ in Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Duschinsky

2015

Psychoanal Cult Soc

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“…Touch is inherently reciprocal; unlike senses, such as sight, touching always engages being touched. This may take symmetrical shape as in the idea of two hands or lips touching (Irigaray 1985); however, in other contexts, bi or multilateral sensations of touch may radically differ (see also Derrida 2005, p. 170). 2.…”

Section: Thinking About Touchmentioning

confidence: 96%

Reading the State as a Multi-Identity Formation: The Touch and Feel of Equality Governance

Cooper

2011

Fem Leg Stud

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How does a sense of touch, figuratively and practically, get deployed within equality governance, and to what questions and ways of thinking about the state does this direct us? Taking 2009-2010 as a snap-shot moment in the development of British equality reform-the year leading up to passage of the Equality Act 2010-this article explores the relationship between touch (the haptic) and equality governance from three angles. First, how have governmental bodies used touch language and imagery, including in geometrical representations of disadvantage? Second, what other, more challenging encounters and actions are imaginable; specifically, can touch mobilise the feeling state as a critical form of active citizenship? Third, what re-conceptualisations of the state does the touching, feeling state invoke, and with what effects? Specifically, does conceiving of the state as a multi-identity formation reframe the risks associated with a haptic state, thereby opening up new strategies for political action?

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“…4 See for a full discussion Beccalli (1994) and Lazzaro-Weis (2002). 5 See for example, Irigaray (1985). For Irigaray's influence on Italian feminism see Bono and Kemp (1991, pp.…”

Section: Reproduction and Citizenship In Contemporary Italymentioning

confidence: 98%