Narrative theory
Proposed to be offered next in 1996
CRT4290
Reading Irigaray
Elizabeth Grosz
8 or 12 points * 2 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
This subject examines the work of one of the more difficult and rewarding of the key figures in contemporary French thought, the psychoanalyst, philosopher and linguist, Luce Irigaray. The subject involves a detailed reading of the key texts of Irigaray, from her earliest publications in 1974 to her current writings. Irigaray has published broadly in a number of academic disciplines (including psychology, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, literature and linguistics) and covered a range of different issues (from questions in ontology and epistemology to key issues in economic exchange and theology). The subject will provide a rudimentary intellectual context to Irigaray's work, and then proceed chronologically from her earliest writings through to her most recent.
Assessment: 8 points
Two essays (3000 words)
Assessment: 12 points
Two essays (4500 words)
Prescribed texts
Irigaray L Speculum of the other woman Cornell UP, 1985
Irigaray L This sex which is not one Cornell UP, 1985
Irigaray L Marine lover, of Freidrich Nietzsche
Irigaray L Sexes and genealogies
Irigaray L Je, tous, nous
Irigaray L Elemental passions
Irigaray L An ethics of sexual difference
Whitford M (ed) The Irigaray reader
Whitford M Luce Irigaray: Philosophy in the feminine
Burke C, Schor N and Whitford M (eds) Engaging Irigaray
Grosz E Sexual subversions: three French feminists Allen and Unwin, 1989