Abstract:

This article responds to recent criticisms of Luce Irigaray's I Love to You by inviting the reader to attend to the resources for theorizing being-two in love offered in this book as well as in Irigaray's larger corpus. Irigaray's focus on male/female relationships is a strategic choice that does not endorse compulsory heterosexuality. Her thought on the negative, on silence and on listening contributes to a theory of relational identity that can lead to the building of a new social order.

Keywords: IRIGARAY; LOVE; HETEROSEXISM; THE NEGATIVE; SILENCE; LISTENING

Document Type: Forum article