Luce Irigaray

01Irigaray's doctoral thesis, 'Speculum of the Other Woman,' was submitted to the University of Vincennes in 1974; it resulted in her immediate dismissal from her teaching post.
02She argued that Western philosophy from Plato to Freud used 'woman' as a mirror to reflect the male subject — never as a subject herself.
03Her expulsion from Lacan's school was reportedly ordered by Lacan personally after reading the chapters on Freud.

Sworn virgin in Rapsha, Hoti , Ottoman Albania , 1908

Gasoline in a glass jar

Luce Irigaray was expelled from Jacques Lacan's École Freudienne in 1974 after submitting her doctoral thesis arguing that psychoanalysis had theorized female sexuality entirely through the male body's absence. Lacan's school expelled her for correctly applying Lacan.