on cixous's tongue (beyond scopic desire)

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Frédéric Regard Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay – Saint Cloud 15, parvis René Descartes BP 7000 69342 Lyons France E‐mail: [email protected]

This is the English version of a piece in French entitled “faite d'yeux” due to appear in a collection of papers on Cixous's work, edited by Professor Mireille Calle‐Gruber (Paris: Galilée, 2004). I would like to thank Zakir Paul for his invaluable help in translating and adapting this essay and in fact helping me see more than I thought there was to see in crossing languages.

“Savoir” [1997] in Hélène Cixous and Jacques Derrida, Voiles (Paris: Galilée, 1998) 10–19. Trans. Geoffrey Bennington, Veils (Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998). All further references are to the French edition, with my translation.

See the long footnote to a discussion in Civilization and its Discontents [1930] in The Standard Edition (London: Hogarth and the Institute of Psycho‐Analysis, 1953–74) vol. XXI, 99. According to Freud, the process of civilization set in with man's adoption of an erect posture and a subsequent privileging of the sense of sight.

Luce Irigaray, Speculum de l'autre femme (Paris: Minuit, 1974) 53. Trans. G.C. Gill, Speculum of the Other Woman (New York: Cornell UP, 1985).

See Freud's Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality [1905] in The Standard Edition, vol. VII, 191–92.

For example, Jean‐Luc Marion, Dieu sans l'être (Paris: Fayard, 1982) 142–48.

Guy Rosolato, La Relation d'inconnu (Paris: Gallimard, 1978) 255–78.

See Freud, “On Femininity” [1933] in New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977) Lecture 33.

John Milton, The Complete Shorter Poems, ed. John Carey (Longman: London, 1989) 248.

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Frédéric Regard Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay – Saint Cloud 15, parvis René Descartes BP 7000 69342 Lyons France E‐mail: [email protected]