Lecture date: 2000-11-06
‘The way we live is governed by need, not desire. If desire is to survive, we have to maintain the distinction between community, privacy, proximity – we have to keep and create space.’ Luce Irigaray discusses her ideas of durable co-existence. Irigaray is an interdisciplinary thinker who works between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and linguistics.
Originally a student of Jacques Lacan, Irigaray’s departure from Lacan in Speculum of the Other Woman, where she critiques the exclusion of women from both philosophy and psychoanalytic theory, earned her recognition as a leading feminist theorist and continental philosopher. Her subsequent texts provide a comprehensive analysis and critique of the exclusion of women from the history of philosophy, psychoanalytic theory and structural linguistics.
Tim Matthews, Professor of French at UCL, acts as translator during the lecture.
