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Tables of Contents for Philosophy and the Maternal Body
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
x
Introduction
1
6
PART I Reading silence
7
94
1 Speaking silence: woman's voice in philosophy
9
18
Reading silence
10
1
Luce Irigaray: speaking otherwise -- woman as the place of philosophy
11
4
Michele Le Doeuff: woman as enclosed spacelinteriority
15
12
2 Philosophy: reading denial
27
23
Returning to the repressed: Plato's bodily fluids
28
3
Symptomatic reading
33
1
Reading with the eye
34
2
Reading with innocence and guilt
36
2
Louis Althusser: a world without women
38
4
Returning to the scene of the crime
42
5
Althusser's problematic: silencing and exclusion
47
3
3 Reading psychoanalysis: psychotic texts/maternal pre-texts
50
18
Reading Freud
51
1
Psychosis: foreclosing the mother
51
4
"Fort-da" as the compulsion to repeat
55
3
Schreber: the self as psychotic text
58
6
The abject: writing (and) the maternal body
64
4
4 Philosophy and silence: The Differend
68
17
Jean-Francois Lyotard: The Differend
68
4
Figuring woman: the idiom of sexual difference?
72
5
Luce Irigaray: genre and sexual difference
77
4
Women and silence: differend
81
4
5 Unquiet silence: Kristeva reading Marx with Freud
85
16
Reading Marx: production and (masculine) self-production
85
2
Marx: the language of birth
87
2
Baudrillard reading Marx
89
2
Kristeva reading Marx
91
1
The dream-work
92
3
Silent production?
95
2
Symbolic exchange
97
4
PART II Speaking silence
101
75
6 Kristeva: naming the problem
103
31
The poetic subject and negativity
104
3
The body in crisis
107
6
Poetic language as revolution: reading the avant-garde
113
3
Poetic language and the maternal body
116
5
Woman as negativity
121
7
Beyond the proper name
128
6
7 Collecting mothers: women at the Symposium
134
25
Exploring the maternal metaphor
135
3
Mother's white ink: Helene Cixous
138
3
Writing the mother: Melanie Klein
141
3
Mothers and the art of birth: Julia Kristeva
144
5
Toward a feminist poetics: writing (and) the mother's body
149
6
From body to voice: labial logic
155
4
8 Mothers and daughters: speaking
159
17
Mothers and daughters writing
159
4
Reproduction and repetition
163
7
Mother-daughter poetics: Luce Irigaray
170
6
Conclusion: speaking with(in) the symbolic
176
6
Notes
182
35
Bibliography
217
14
Index
231