ABSTRACT
Luce Irigaray was born in Belgium in 1930. She earned her master’s degree from the University of Louvain in 1955 and then taught high school in Brussels until 1959. She moved to Paris where she earned a master’s (1961) and then a diploma (1962) in psychology from the University of Paris. She attended Jacques LACAN’s seminars, became a member of his École freudienne de Paris, and trained to become an analyst. In 1968 she also received her doctorate in linguistics, which led to a teaching position at the University of Vincennes (1970-74). She was expelled from Jacques Lacan’s École and lost her faculty post at Vincennes after publishing Speculum of the Other Woman (1974), which was her second doctoral thesis. She is currently Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris.
