Luce Irigaray is the author of many works, including This Sex Which Is Not One and Speculum of the Other Woman.
She is director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris and a practicing psychoanalyst.
Review
"A major new phase in Irigaray´s continuing archaeology of the feminine in Western civilization.
. . .Marine Lover constitutes her most powerful and sustained achievement since Speculum."
--Naomi Schor, author of Bad Objects: Essays Popular and Unpopular
Columbia University Press Web Site, May, 2000
Summary
Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation
of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes
to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, from the point of view of water.
According to Irigaray water is the element Nietzsche fears most. She uses this element in her narrative because
for her there is a complex relationship between the feminine and the fluid. Irigaray's method is to engage in an
amorous dialogue with the male philosopher. In this dialogue, she ruptures conventional discourse and writes in
a lyrical style that defies distinction between theory, fiction, and philosophy.
