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The aim would then be to create two equally positive and autonomous terms, and to acknowledge two sexes, not one. Following this line of thought, with [[Lacan]]’s mirror stage and [[Derrida]]’s theory of [[logocentrism]] in the background, Irigaray also criticises the favouring of unitary truth within patriarchal society. In her theory for creating a new disruptive form of feminine writing ([[Écriture féminine]]), she focuses on the child’s [[pre-Oedipal]] phase when experience and knowledge is based on bodily contact, primarily with the mother. Here lies one major interest, the mother-daughter relationship, which she considers devalued in patriarchal society. Luce Irigaray is often associated with [[Hélène Cixous]] and [[Julia Kristeva]].

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