To Speak is Never Neutral by Luce Irigaray

Author:Luce Irigaray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Metaphor Interpreted

It is into this scene, or this score, of metaphor, that interpretation worms its way. It loosens, without breaking into, without cutting into, the tightness of its knots, the way they come together or close up into one single point, supposedly final, of multiple relations. Operating through connections linked back to other, same and other, chains, through transfers to different circuits branching off, joined, to various networks, and their respective syntaxes, interpretation emphasizes, through allusion, the artifice of their confusion, convergence and assimilation. The latter are made possible by an affinity, by some economy of kinship, not excluding differences, gaps, intervals, differences in gaps and intervals, differences between so-called terms, as well as between always already plural combinations, groupings and operations in always already metaphorical chains, related to each other through metaphor. Resemblance, or analogy - if it is taken as such (and such a term) - tends to cover over, to recover (?), in its loops, rings and envelopings, all types of play between, and their ordering, since resemblance’s aim is the limit of the series: the biggest, the strongest, the highest, the truest, the most natural, etc., but also their variations and determinations, through the anticipation, or foresight, of their recurrence, and also through mastery of the gap between the plan and its possible repercussions, between the aim and its deferred action, its retroactive effects, between the imperfect and the future perfect. Etc. Sex represents its operations, as well as their suspension, summary, resorption, into a ‘correct’ (just, true, natural, strong, elevated ... ) term, a term as right as anything, the best, the most sublime, with no possible response. The last word! Without approximate repetitions, reproductions. Play of the same and other. Positing the other out of inability to repeat the same, which, here, is the simple reiteration or the return of the end reabsorbing the origin, encompassing it, enveloping it, as well as their gaps, and their tropisms, and the history of their relations, under the pretext of the same.

Which could be translated, out of facility for and indulgence in final metaphors, as life is death — and not life and death are linked through comparison. We can thus extrapolate the function of as/like, of between-two, of the waiting, the uncertainty, the doubt and the unforeseen of the relation between necessity and chance, between tropism and aphanisis, between illusion and unveiling, unveiling as illusion, the hymen as illusion of unveiling, as unveiling of illusion, etc. It is relegated to an eternity neither fortunate nor unfortunate, removed from contingencies, from the interminable games of sex and their polarity. The latter are transferred, in an (acceptable) metaphor, an (acceptable) metaphoric practice, deviated and merged, into sublime terms. Into sublimation? Who knows? Read for yourselves, right here, the risks of letting oneself get carried away by metaphor, even, or especially, for an analyst.

Because the analyst has no other business but that. All enunciating practice, all enunciation, is already metaphorical for her or for him; all utterances are referred

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