Luce Irigaray - An Ethics Of Sexual Difference, An Ethics Of Sexual Difference: sec. II
In order to avoid an effacement of the other and a reduction to the same, we must take the burden of the negative onto ourselves and remain radically open in constructing our episteme. Only in this way can we attain to the wonderment that lends life its charm in fostering opportunities for ex-stasis, and achieve (at least the possibility) of authentic togetherness that is truly reciprocal, rather than a constant struggle for relative domination, that eventually inevitably leads to degeneration through wasted expenditure and perpetual hyper vigilance. We needs foster intuitive patterns of genuine mutual exchange- and an appropriate condition for this has to begin at the most fundamental social relationship: that which exists between the sexes, in order to conquer gravity, bolster levity, and re-inspire the divine into our immediate circumstances.
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