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PART I - FEMINISM, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND THE HEBREW BIBLE: “INTRODUCING” LUCE IRIGARAY

Julie Kelso
Affiliation:
University of Queensland, Australia
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No one method, form of writing, speaking position, mode of argument can act as representative, model or ideal for feminist theory. Instead of attempting to establish a new theoretical norm, feminist theory seeks a new discursive space, a space where women can write, read and think as women. This space will encourage a proliferation of voices, instead of a hierarchical structuring of them, a plurality of perspectives and interests instead of the monopoly of the one – new kinds of questions and different kinds of answers

(Grosz, 1986: 203–204)

My reading and analysis of the books of Chronicles takes place through the double lens of feminism and psychoanalysis. While certain feminist methods across a multitude of disciplines have long been associated with various psychoanalytic approaches (i.e. Freudian, Lacanian, Kleinian Object Relations, etc.), it is acknowledged that feminism and psychoanalysis have a complex and contentious relationship, one, however, I interpret as ultimately productive. This problematic, yet productive relationship is radically evident in the work of Luce Irigaray, the feminist philosopher and psychoanalyst with whom I engage in this book. In the next two chapters, I shall outline those theoretical and methodological aspects of Irigaray's earlier work that I insist are most relevant to the task of providing a feminist psychoanalytic reading and analysis of Chronicles.

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O Mother, Where Art Thou?
An Irigarayan Reading of the Book of Chronicles
, pp. 15 - 21
Publisher: Acumen Publishing
Print publication year: 2008

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