PHIL 3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mimesis
4 Apr 2016
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Beauvoir women do not get to construct their sexuality. Freud outlines the world as the project of male subjecivity: women"s sexuality is described as not being the essenial thing/not being a man. We will noice that women"s sexuality is passive and there is a lack of. Beauvoir criiques that freud makes sex linear and goal oriented understanding of feminine pleasure. When we use language we describe x, y, z. Phallocentric logic oriented male sexuality and subjecivity our whole symbolic representaional system is designed to cater to men: governs the situaions in the real world, irirgaray says there is no design for women. Describes history and our life as teleological (goal oriented: observes other cultures as part of the story of progress. The idea of diference supposes incompaibility and there are diferences in ideniies that are unique and possessing a plurality: if we view female sexuality as opposed to and in support of we shut down diference.
