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Jung, Irigaray, Individuation: Philosophy, Analytical Psychology, and the Question of the Feminine

Author(s) : Frances Gray

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The book outlines Plato's conception of the feminine as disorder and argues that this conception is found in Jung's notion of the anima feminine. It then argues that Luce Irigaray's work challenges the notion of the feminine as disorder. Her mimetic adoption of this figuring of the feminine is a direct assault on what can be understood as a culturally dominant Western understanding. Luce Irigaray argues for a feminine divine which will model an ideal feminine just as the masculine divine models a masculine ideal. In making her claims, Irigaray, the book argues, is expanding and elaborating Jung's idea of individuation.