Presenting a vital selection of one of today's most influential philosophers of language, this book dispells once and for all the notion that scientific language is objective. Irigaray reveals the gendered -- and, crucially the prejudicial -- dimensions of a range of psychoanalytic discourses.

1. Introduction. 2. Linguistic and Specular Communication. 3. Negation and Negative Transformations in the Language of Schizophrenics. 4. Towards a Grammar of Enunciation for Hysterics and Obsessives. 5. On Phantasm and the Verb. 6. Linguistic Structures of Kinship and Their Perturbations in Schizophrenia. 7. Sentence Production Among Schizophrenics and Senile Dementia Patients. 8. The Utterance in Analysis. 9. Class Language, Unconscious Language. 10. The Rape of the Letter. 11. Sex as Sign. 12. Idiolect or Other Logic. 13. Does Schizophrenic Discourse Exist? 14. Schizophrenics, Or the Refusal of Schiz. 15. The Setting in Psychoanalysis. 16. The Poverty of Psychoanalysis. 17. The Language of Man. 18. The Limits of Transference. 19. In Science, Is the Subject Sexed?