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Exceeding Hegel and Lacan: Different Fields of Pleasure within Foucault and Irigaray

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

Anglo-American embodiments of poststructuralist and French feminism often align themselves with the texts of either Michel Foucault or Luce Irigaray. lnterrogating this alleged distance between Foucault and Irigaray, I show how it reinscrihes the phallic field of concepts and categories within feminist discourses. Framing both Foucault and Irigaray as exceeding]acques Lacan's metamorphosis of G.W.F. Hegel's Concept, I suggest that engaging their styles might yield richer tools for articulating the differences within our different lives.

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Copyright © 1999 by Hypatia, Inc.

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