Irigaray was right. The first crime wasn't patricide but matricide. The Mother was buried beneath the Law, her milk renamed Logos.

I dig through the syntax, blood on my hands, birthing language back into body.

#Irigaray
#matricide

Psychoanalytic feminism taught me the unconscious was never male, only misnamed.

The Mother is not gone. She writes through me in blood and metaphor, demanding that I do not theorize her but remember her.

#PsychoanalyticFeminism
#Irigaray
#Kristeva
#Benjamin
#TheReturnOfTheMother

"#Irigaray examines the way that sexual difference is handled throughout the history of Western Philosophy, ..., arguing that true sexual difference has been obliterated and displaced by a false difference, one according to which the concept of woman is simply the opposite of man, the negation of masculinity. Obliteration is a technical term she borrows from #Heidegger, and it means not only forgetting something, but forgetting that you have forgotten it."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158078934

between the translation of Foucault's "Surveiller et Punir" as "Discipline and Punish" and the mistranslation of "force du travail" in Irigaray's ouvre as "workforce" (instead of labour-power as refclected in English Marxist jargon) I do not think you should trust any late 20th century French #philosophy translations lol

#foucault #irigaray #marxism