Helene Cixous and Luce Irigaray have been most useful in informing my interpretation of Hurston’s book. In “The Laugh of the Medusa,” Cixous discusses a phenomenon she calls antilove that I have found helpful in defining the social hierarchy of women and relationships between them in the novel. In addition, Cixous addresses the idea of woman as caregiver, which can be illustrated through the character of Janie in Their Eyes Were Watching God. On the other hand, Luce Irigaray discusses the different
Cixous's The Laugh of the Medusa Critiqued Against Showalter's Essay Feminist Criticism in the Wilderness In learning about feminist theory this semester, one idea that arose from class discussions was the notion of essentialism. Essentialism, a theory that stresses essence as opposed to existence, was discussed at length and while some classmates found it to reductionary and cliché, it is a question that I assume must be asked of ecriture feminine writing. Does ecriture feminine writing
effected. Katniss provides protection for her younger sister, Primrose Everdeen, and her mother, again carrying out the role of the father, or the alpha of the house. She satisfies this role to the degree of volunteering to compete in the annual hunger games in the place of her sister, who was initially chosen. Katniss felt it was her responsibility to protect her sister, as she was the main provider and protector of her family and the household. After volunteering to take Prim 's place, Katniss
We all have a purpose in this world that is often called destiny or fate; we all have our lives planned out, and there is a time and a place for everything. From the moment we are born to the time we die, everything happens for a reason. However, what would happen if we added life extension? In the context of this essay, life extension is the prolonging of life in which one cannot die from natural causes, where one can do things that are considered impossible in reality. However, with every good
In the article “Reading and Thought” the author Dwight MacDonald provides criticism and disagreement with Henry Luce’s idea of “functional curiosity”. Luce developed the term “functional curiosity” defining it as an eagerness of people to know the latest news happening around the world. On the other hand, MacDonald concludes that functional curiosity only strengthens reader’s practice in reading rather than in providing invaluable information. He underlines that literature nowadays is deficient and
What does long-term athlete development mean to you? Well, in this paper I am going to talk about long-term athlete development. Long- term athlete development is “A clear path to better sport, greater health, and higher achievement” (Sports for Life). You are going to learn the ways first of what long-term athlete development is, how it is going to impact my job and finally, an example of a movement that you can development over time. If you were asking yourself what is long-term athlete development
Do you believe that some people make time for what they want in life? Do you make time for what you want in life? Have you ever shown small gestures to show someone how much you really appreciate them? Making time for the people you care about can be hard, but when someone does put in the effort to create time for an individual, it makes a huge difference. Time can be hard to find, when you are trying to better yourself in life, but there is always another alternative to show people in your life
influential addresses not only produced positive feedback from both communities, but it even compelled some Jews to convert to Catholicism (Riley 284-285). Also, Sheen’s influence encouraged the conversion of key public figures such as Clare Boothe Luce and Henry Ford II. Perhaps the greatest conversion conducted by Sheen is that of Louis Budenz who was a well known communist writer. Sheen’s influence also impacted people’s opinions on major political
In “Sorcerer Love: A Reading of Plato’s Symposium, Diotima’s Speech,” Luce Irigaray argues that Socrates argues for two incompatible propositions, both he learned from Diotima. The first that love is a demonic intermediary and the second is that love is a means to immortality. Luce Irigaray believes that the first position is Diotima’s and that Socrates misunderstood Diotima. Irigaray contrasts Diotima’s dialectic to Hegel’s dialectic. Hegel’s dialectic is one in which the first term in the argument
concepts of feminism, as well as a reference to John Waters’ film Female Trouble starring the drag queen Divine. Gender Trouble discusses writings of numerous authors, including Simone de Beauvoir, Julia Kristeva, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Luce Irigaray, Monique Wittig, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault. According to Butler, concepts of sex, gender, gender roles, and sexuality, are “performances” that are defined by culture throughout history. The “performance” of gender is repeated over time
Luce Irigaray, ’ article, “This Sex Which is Not one,” can be succinctly summarized by the following key points. First, the author mentions the way women are seen in the western philosophical discourse and in psychoanalytic theory. She also talks about the women’s sexuality in many ways. ”Female sexuality has always been concepualtized on the basis of masculine parameters.” Women are seen in qualitatively rather than quantitatively. “Must this multiplicity of female desire and female language be
Freud devised these terms for hi... ... middle of paper ... ... by the roles and portrayals of women in society. Works Cited Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams. Ed. and trans. James Strachey. New York: Basic Books, 1965. Irigaray, Luce. "Another 'Cause'--Castration." Feminisms. Ed. Robyn R. Warhol and Diane Price Herndl. New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 1991. 404-12. Frederick, Karl. "Introduction to the Danse Macabre: Conrad's Heart of Darkness." Heart of Darkness: A
criticized by many feminists. ‘Feminists have found Freud to be not only enraging, but intriguing in assessing whether his claims are accurate descriptions of sex roles and the reproduction of patriarchy’. Following are some of the critiques – Luce Irigaray, in her books ‘The Sex Which is Not One and Speculum of the Other Woman, sees psychoanalysis as problematic as ‘it reduces sexual difference to sexual oneness in a phallocentric society’. She further claims that psychoanalysis limits desire for
communities and families can then remain in peace . Luce Irigaray criticized theories proposed by Sigmund Freud. Luce argues that women have the characteristics of exceptional natural and they do not require any intermediate ION be a true woman . Luce also very concerned mother daughter relationship . He stressed mother daughter relationship discussed by him is not subject to the patriarchal family , but refers to the relationship mothers raising daughters. Luce also stressed that women need a kind of language
In “The Power of Discourse and the Subordination of the Feminine,” Luce Irigaray argues that, because society uses a patriarchal language that privileges male-gendered logic over female-gender emotion, there is no adequate language to represent female desire. She writes that “feminine pleasure has to remain inarticulate in language, in its own language, if it is not to threaten the underpinnings of logical operations” and, because of this, “what is most strictly forbidden to women today is that they
such help create social reality rather than simply reflect it. Gender theory achieved a wide readership and acquired much its initial theoretical rigor through the work of a group of French feminist theorists that included Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray, Helene Cixous, and Julia Kristeva, who while Bulgarian rather than French, made her mark writing in French. French feminist thought is based on the assumption that the Western philosophical tradition represses the experience of women in the structure
Ben Kadie CORE 112 K. Z. 6 May 2014 “Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.” Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” — ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe Suicide as Poe’s Poetry in Black Swan Poe’s poem, “The Raven,” was received extremely well and swiftly made its author famous. One year passed and Poe popped out an essay called “The Philosophy of Composition,” which
luck" (Lohafer 475). At the present point in the story, Ma Parker arrives to work in the house of the literary gentleman after she buried the previous day her loving grandson, Lennie, who was the only ray of light in her dreary life. According to Irigaray, "all the systems of exchange that organize patriarchal societies and all the modalities of productive work that are recognized, values, and rewarded in these societies are men’s business….[t]he work force is this always assumed to be masculine,
Myth comes into being on the base of primitive religious belief and popular folklores, representing the wisdom and intelligence of a group of people. Some people may prejudicially regard myth as some ridiculous, strange and bizarre stories fraught with queer and absurd characters and plots which will never actually happen in the real world. If everyone is harboring this disdainful kind of view on myth, it is definitely a great loss culturally and aesthetically. Graf points that “a myth makes a valid
“If we continue to speak in this sameness, speak as men have spoken for centuries, we will fail each other” (Irigaray & Burke, 1980, p. 69) This is a quote from feminist writer Luce Irigaray’s When Our Lips Speak Together, an essay that attempts to re-appropriate the female body by deconstructing the patriarchal language that has been projected onto it for centuries. It overlies artist Jenny Saville’s Propped (Figure 1) (Saville, 1992), a self-portrait in which she perches on a stool, her body heavily