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Only Blood would be more red: Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Sexual Difference
Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2001)
  • Helen A Fielding, The University of Western Ontario
Abstract
Irigaray turns to Merleau-Ponty's intuitions about the perception of color to develop her own insights into the creative emergence of sexuate identity. As a quality of the flesh, color cannot be reduced to formal codes. The privileging of word and text inherent to Western culture suppresses the coming into being of the embodied subject in his or her own situated context. Color, tied as it is to a corporeal creativity could provide an important link since it facilitates reflection, and a re-enfleshing through color of a differentiated sexuate identity tied to the imagination as well as to genetic identity.
Keywords
  • Irigaray,
  • Merleau-Ponty,
  • colour
Publication Date
May, 2001
Citation Information
Helen A Fielding. "Only Blood would be more red: Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty and the Ethics of Sexual Difference" Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology Vol. 32 Iss. 2 (2001)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/helen_fielding/22/