ABSTRACT
Luce Irigaray scatters to the four winds loosely metaphorised fragments of JudaeoChristian theology: we hear much of ‘word’, ‘covenant’, ‘promise’, ‘incarnation’, ‘resurrection’, ‘pentecost’, ‘communion’ and ‘parousia’, not to mention intermediary angels. Yet her writings refer in practice to an Eros that is recognisably Platonic: sexually-based, naturally mysterious, cosmic, upward-reaching, quasi-divine, belonging to ‘being’. Save that, counter-platonically, the lost homeland of spiritual ascent will be relocated by Irigaray in the space-time of historical becoming, and re rooted firmly in the human psyche, viewed in its unseen continuity with the body.
