whirlwinds

It is already getting around – at what rate? in what contexts? in spite of what resistances? – that women diffuse themselves according to modalities scarcely compatible with the framework of the ruling symbolics. Which doesn’t happen without causing some turbulence, we might even say whirlwinds, that ought to be reconfined within solid walls of principle, to keep them from spreading to infinity. Otherwise they might even go so far as to disturb that third agency designated as the real – a transgression and confusion of boundaries that it is important to restore to their proper order.

Luce Irigaray, ‘The “Mechanics” of Fluids’, This Sex Which Is Not One (Ithaca, New York:
Cornell University Press, [1977], 1985), 106.

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