To Speak Is Never Neutral

ISBN-13: 9780415908139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 278 str.

Luce Irigaray; Gail M. Schwab

Opis

French speakers know that nouns have genders and that verbs have masculine and feminine endings. It's different for English speakers, an "ungendered" tongue that often hides the powerful gendering of every speech. If our society is rife with gender inequities, can the language we speak really be innocent? Speech is never neutral.
Feminist philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray is renowned for her analyses of language, studies that can be precise and poetic at the same time. In this volume of her work on language, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, she is concerned with developing a model that can reveal those unconscious or pre-conscious structures that determine speech. A key element of her method is the comparison of spoken and written language, through which she teases out the sexual and social configurations of speech. "To Speak is Never Neutral" brings to English speakers important feminist and psychoanalytic insights by one of France's most provocative thinkers.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Linguistic and Specular Communication, Chapter 3 Negation and Negative Transformations in the Language of Schizophrenics, Chapter 4 Towards a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives, Chapter 5 On Phantasm and the Verb, Chapter 6 Linguistic Structures of Kinship and Their Perturbations in Schizophrenia, Chapter 7 Sentence Production among Schizophrenics and Senile Dementia Patients, Chapter 8 The Utterance in Analysis, Chapter 9 Class Language, Unconscious Language, Chapter 10 The Rape of the Letter, Chapter 11 Sex as Sign, Chapter 12 Idiolect or Other Logic, Chapter 13 Does Schizophrenic Discourse Exist?, Chapter 14 Schizophrenics, or the Refusal of Schiz, Chapter 15 The Setting in Psychoanalysis, Chapter 16 The Poverty of Psychoanalysis, Chapter 17 The Language of Man, Chapter 18 The Limits of Transference, Chapter 19 In Science, Is the Subject Sexed?, Index

O autorze

Luce Irigaray is a leading philosopher and feminist thinker, best known for Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. More recently she has published I Love to You and To Be Two (both available from Routledge).