Luce Irigaray

Luce Irigaray (born in 1930) is a linguist and psychoanalyst French Féministe.

Biography

Luce Irigaray was born in 1930 in Belgium. After studies at the university of Leuwen and a beginning of career as a professor in a college of Brussels, it comes to settle in France with the beginning of the year 1960. It becomes, a little later, research director with the National center of scientific research. It supports in 1968 a doctorate in Linguistique. Of 1970 with 1974, it teaches with the Université Paris VIII then located at Vincennes. It takes part in the same time with the Seminar of Jacques Lacan. It will become later itself Psychanalyste, member of the École freudienne of Paris and will be the analyst of Antoinette Fouque. She presents one second thesis a little later, Speculum. Other woman , and loses in 1974 her teaching at the university.

Work

The work of Luce Irigaray is marked by the study of the sexual difference in the language: there is a language of the men and a language of the women, different and it is up to the men to understand that their language is not the language of all humanity.

Its books, translated into English, influenced several academics and feminists with the the United States of America, and belong what is called to French Theory. It belongs to the intellectuals criticized by Sokal and Bricmont in intellectual Impostures .

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