Download or read book To Speak is Never Neutral written by Luce Irigaray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminist philosopher, linguist, and psychoanalyst Luce Irigaray is renowned for her analyses of language, studies that can be precise and poetic at the same time. In this volume of her work on language, linguistics, and psychoanalysis, she is concerned with developing a model that can reveal those unconscious or pre-conscious structures that determine speech. A key element of her method is the comparison of spoken and written language, through which she teases out the sexual and social configurations of speech.