Luce Irigaray, This Sex Which Is Not One.

  1. Irigaray speaks to the ways in which language or discourse mold societies thinking, particularly with regard to Freud's definitions regarding female sexuality. What are some of the ways she exposes the implications of psychoanalysis and its inappropriateness? (p 72) 2. How does Irigaray address exchange value and use value of the subordination of the sexualized female and to what lengths has woman been made a commodity? (p.173-175/180) 3. One of the connecting threads of Freud, Heidegger and Derrida is the idea of deconstructing the way in which we form identity. How would Iiigaray's project apply to this idea? 4. Identify the ways in which Irigaray introduces or reframes the female subject position and how she utilizes past work from philosophers such as Marx, Freud, Derrida, and Lacan. How does she account for the absence of the female subject within philosophy? What opportunities and/or risks are present within her methods of approach to the female subject?