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Divine Flesh, Embodied Word
Incarnation as a Hermeneutical Key to a Feminist Theologian's Reading of Luce Irigaray's Work
What has Luce Irigaray’s statement that women need a God to do with her thoughts on the relation between body and mind, or the sensible and the intelligible?
Using the theological notion incarnation as a hermeneutical key, Anne-Claire Mulder brings together and illuminates the interrelations between these different themes in Luce Irigaray’s work.
Seesawing between Irigaray’s critique and her constructive philosophy
Mulder elucidates Irigaray’s thoughts on the relations between becoming woman and becoming divine. She shows that Irigaray’s restaging of the relation between the sensible and the intelligible, between flesh and Word, is key to her reinterpretation of the relation between woman and God.
The relation between flesh and Word
In her interpretation of Irigaray’s thoughts on the flesh, Mulder argues that the relation between flesh and Word must be seen as a dialectical one, instead of as a dualistic relation. This means that incarnation is no longer seen as a one-way process of Word becoming flesh, but as a continuing process of flesh becoming word and word becoming flesh.
Images, thoughts, and divine creativity
All images and thoughts – including those of God – are produced by the flesh, divine in its creativity inexhaustibility, in response to the touch of the other. And these images, thoughts, words in turn become embodied, by touching and moving the flesh of the subject.
