LUCE IRIGARAY AND LOVE

Author: Bostic H.

Source: Cultural Studies , Volume 16, Number 5, 1 September 2002 , pp. 603-610(8)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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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

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