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Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray Emma R. Jones Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray Emma R. Jones Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray Emma R. Jones Livermore, CA, USA ISBN 978-3-031-19304-0 ISBN 978-3-031-19305-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19305-7 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. 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The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland Acknowledgments Many thanks are due to the friends and colleagues who have supported this work over the years. I began writing this book during my time at the University of Oregon, where Al Frankowski and Jessica Sims were especially supportive during the writing process. Many thanks also to John Lysaker for his inspiring course on Heidegger and, for their intellectual companionship, to the many individuals impacted by the work of Luce Irigaray whom I met during that time at conferences around the world, especially Anne van Leeuwen and Andrew Robinson. Thank you also to Claudia Baracchi, whose courses on Ancient Greek thinking and French Feminism at the New School captivated my interest decades ago in a way that has never ceased. Thank you to Luce Irigaray for sharing of herself via her writings, her seminar in which I participated at the University of Nottingham in 2010, and for our correspondence over the years. Finally, thanks to those who always serve as humbling reminders of my own specificity and their irreducible, and wonderful, otherness – my family, close friends, and psychotherapy clients. Portions of this research were supported by the Oregon Humanities Center, who granted me a Graduate Student Research Support Fellowship during the academic year 2011–2012. v vi Acknowledgments Portions of Chapter Four appeared as “The Future of Sexuate Difference: Irigaray, Heidegger, Ontology, and Ethics,” in L’Esprit Createur, Vol. 52, No. 3, Fall 2012. Portions of Chapter Five appeared as “Finding/Founding Our Place: Thinking Luce Irigaray’s Ontology and Ethics of Sexuate Difference as a Relational Limit” in Building a New World, Eds. Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). Contents 1 Introduction: Being as Relation in Luce Irigaray 1 Reading Irigaray, Listening 2 Terminology: Ontology, Subjectivity, Ethics 5 Relational Limit 7 Chapter Summaries 9 References 12 2 Muted Receptions: Identity and Sexuate Difference 15 The Philosopher Who is Not One 17 Irigaray’s Three Phases 24 Femininity and The Transformation of “the Subject” 30 Identity Vs. Relation 37 References 39 3 Relation and Refusal: Irigaray with Lacan 43 Lacan on Language, Subjectivity, and Sex 47 God or the Jouissance of the Woman: Irigaray and Lacan on Sexual Difference 54 The Psychosis of the Masculine 68 References 71 vii viii Contents 4 Hearing Silence, Speaking Language: Irigaray with Heidegger 73 Note on Terminology 76 Living Within Language as a Call to Respond: A Reading of Heidegger’s “Language” 78 On the Way to the Other 91 References 99 5 The Enunciation of Place: Irigaray on Subjectivity 101 Aristotle’s Impasse of Place 103 Relational Limit: A “Double Loop” of Places 107 Speaking at the Limit: The Sharing of Speech 111 References 127 6 Toward a Relationally Limited Future 129 “Woman’s” Lack of Place: An Act of Violence 131 Identity (and) Politics 142 Encountering the World as a Sexuate Subject 145 Conclusion 157 References 160 I ndex 163 About the Author Emma R. Jones is a psychotherapist in private practice in the San Francisco East Bay Area. She was educated at the New School; the University of Oregon, where she earned her PhD in philosophy; and the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she earned her clinical degree. She is the author of several articles engaging the work of Luce Irigaray as well as phenomenology, psychoanalysis, and Ancient Greek philosophy. ix Abbreviations1 SOW Speculum of the Other Woman SAF Speculum de l’autre femme TS This Sex Which Is Not One CS Ce sexe qui n’en est pas un WOL The Way of Love STW Sharing the World ESD An Ethics of Sexual Difference CV Conversations ILTY I Love To You JLI “Je- Luce Irigaray” (Interview) TBT To Be Two TBB To Be Born STF Sharing the Fire 1 Texts By Luce Irigaray. xi