Luce Irirgary- Speculum Notes

.The important point, it seems, is for vou to be firmlv convinced. without possible

hesitation, that vou cannot be in error, that there is no ambiguity possible.”

It must surely be concluded that up to this point the element defined as both specific

to each and common to both sexes involves nothing but a process of reproduction an^

production.

Your so-called psychological discourse has simply "given way-.to anatomy and

convention"

It draws your attention to the fact that portions of the male sexual apparatus also

appear in women's bodies, though in an atrophied state, and vice versa in the

alternative case.

My way of envision these things, these " imply that the psvchic is prescribed by the

anatomical according to mimetic order, with anatomical science imposing the upon

"psychological behaviour.

One might consider characterising femininity psychologically

as giving preference to passive aims. This is not, of course,

the same thing as passivity; to achieve a passive aim may call

for a large amount of activity.the mother, sexual life till now

serve as paradigm for the female in the debate about the relations between
Allowing for the consideration of femininity, what is it according to Females, are the

examples of studies or any points of inquiry similar to the work he had done in

psychoanalysis, perhaps his opinion is skewed in a somewhat masochistic way.