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Speculum of the Other Woman Luce Irigaray
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€�Any Theory of the 'Subject' Has Always Been Appropriated by the 'Masculine,'” Speculum of the Other Woman. Though intended as a compliment, it's still an act of violence against the defenceless picture of a woman. She was inspired by the psychoanalytic theories of Jaques Lacan and the deconstruction of Jaques Derrida. A mirroring and reflecting of phallocentric ideals back to men. Irigaray wrote a thesis while attending this institution regarding Speculum, de l'autre femme, in English this says: Speculum of the Other Woman. The work of Mona Hatoum, Nina Saunders and Ann Hamilton is used as a lens for analysis of the phenomena, and what constitutes he Uncanny both as defined initially by Freud and then more recently by other theorists. [6] Luce Irigaray, Speculum of the Other woman (Speculum de l'autre femme, 1974), Cornell University Press 1985. Of course, I timed my reading with Defoe's Moll Flanders, which is a considerably easier read than, say, Kant's Critique of Judgment or Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman. Luce Iragary: Her best known works: Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) and This Sex is Not One (1977). But also, I failed to mention, quite famously in Luce Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman, where she critiques Merleau-Ponty's concept and counterposes the 'lips' touching each other instead of the hands. In her groundbreaking work Speculum of the Other Woman (1985), she posits that women undergo a process of “specularization,” i.e.