To Speak is never Neutral

To Speak is Never Neutral' presents a vital selection of the range of Luce Irigaray's writings, revealing the origin and development of many ideas central to her thought. The earliest essays included here reveal Irigaray's debt to structural linguistics and deconstruction drawn from her initial studies in the language of schizophrenia. The later essays present Irigaray's highly original explorations of psychoanalysis and language. Seminal essays published here include The Rape of the Letter, Sex as Sign, the Setting in Psychoanalysis, The Poverty of Psychoanalysis, The Language of Man, The Limits of Transference and In Science, Is the Subject Sexed.



Table of Contents


1. Introduction.
2. Linguistic and Specular Communication.
3. Negation and Negative Transformations in the Language of Schizophrenics.
4. Towards a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives.
5. On Phantasm and the Verb.
6. Linguistic Structures of Kinship and Their Perturbations in Schizophrenia.
7. Sentence Production Among Schizophrenics and Senile Dementia Patients.
8. The Utterance in Analysis.
9. Class Language, Unconscious Language.
10. The Rape of the Letter.
11. Sex as Sign.
12. Idiolect or Other Logic.
13. Does Schizophrenic Discourse Exist?
14. Schizophrenics, Or the Refusal of Schiz.
15. The Setting in Psychoanalysis.
16. The Poverty of Psychoanalysis.
17. The Language of Man.
18. The Limits of Transference.
19. In Science, Is the Subject Sexed?