Preface; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: problems of rigidity; 1. Rigid binaries and masculinist Logic; 2. More than one subject: Irigaray and psychoanalytic theory; Part Two: Elemental Passions; 3. 'Fragments from a Woman's Voyage': context and style; 4. Interpretive synopsis of Elemental Passions; 5.

The very first commentary in English on Luce Irigaray's influential work, Elemental Passions. Sets Elemental Passions in its context within continental thought. Discusses the implications of Irigaray's work for the development of a fluid logic as a complement to the binary logic which has long dominated western thought. Shows how Irigaray's representation of sexual difference enables an appreciation of difference of all kinds.

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: problems of rigidity
1. Rigid binaries and masculinist Logic
2. More than one subject: Irigaray and psychoanalytic theory
Part Two: Elemental Passions
3. 'Fragments from a Woman's Voyage': context and style
4. Interpretive synopsis of Elemental Passions
5. Images for a female subject
Part Three: critical identities
6. Multiple subjects and fluid boundaries
7. Fluid logic
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