To Speak is Never Neutral

by Luce Irigaray

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.

Genres: Feminism, Philosophy

278 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

About the author

Luce Irigaray is a Belgian-born French feminist, philosopher, linguist, psycholinguist, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist.

She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One. Presently, she is active in the Women's Movements in both France and Italy.

Reviews

[Kev Nickells · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one is a fairly dense analysis of language-usage; primarily in schizophrenics but also within psychoanalytical and scientific communities more generally. She goes in hard for psychoanalysts. It's more social model in terms of schizophrenia, which is nice - though I wish she'd gone into more detail about the difficulty of psycho-taxonomies. It's been a while since I've read this sort of theory and I've missed it. The Language of Man and The Poverty of Psychoanalysis are worth the entry fee alone. ❤

[Roberto Yoed · Rating 1 out of 5]

Mejor lean Odio a los indiferentes de Gramsci.