Date: Fri, 03 Jan 1997 19:24:37 -0600 (CST)
From: n7sdn-AT-ttacs1.ttu.edu
Subject: Re: matricide and genealogy


Irigaray is obviously well-grounded in ancient philosophy, but the quotes 
below remind me so much of Helene Cixous' section of _La Jeune nee_ (_The 
Newly Born Woman_) that I can't help but think that I. is referring to 
it. In "Sorties," Cixous gives a very interesting (lacanian) reading of 
the _Oresteia_. Sharon Nell

On Fri, 3 Jan 1997, Florence Pastoor wrote:

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> mother.  The man-god-father
> killed the mother in order to take power."  (from "Women-Mothers, the
> Silent Substratum of the Social Order", p. 49)
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> If we are not to be accomplices in the murder of the mother we also need to
> assert that there is a genealogy of women.  (from "Body against Body: In
> Relation to the Mother", p. 19)
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> Male and Female Genealogies are collapsed into a single genealogy: that of
> the husband.   (From Irigaray's intro to _Sexes and Genealogy_, p. 2)
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