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Sharing the World QUOTES

Sharing the World QUOTES

1 " Our eyes are not capable of seeing, nor even contemplating, intimacy, at least not directly. They can only imagine something about intimacy from the light, the gestures, the words, that it radiates. But intimacy as such will remain invisible, irreducible to appropriation, and thus strange to the logic of Western discourse, to the logos, except in its delusion its lack, its derelictions and artificial ecstasies. Intimacy allows itself neither to be seen nor to be seized. Nevertheless it is probably the core of our being. And any attempts to appropriate it risks annihilating being itself. However, it is not a question of magic, of irrationality, of madness--it is a question of touch. "

― Luce Irigaray , Sharing the World

2 " For example, of sexual energy. An energy that could be unfurled as the horizon of a world built with a view towards a sharing of desire with the other is instead expended in secondary, animalistic, solitary, "shameful" or warring activities ... There where one ought to appeal to freedom in order to accomplish human reality as such, it no longer exists because it is harnessed by ideals of obligations that do not take into account the most demanding human imperative: to cultivate the development of an energy, that is always and already bound to the other, towards the elaboration of a specifically human transcendence. "

― Luce Irigaray , Sharing the World