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