whale the boar quoted Sharing the Fire by Luce Irigaray
Hegel does not imagine that the internal unity with which sexuation can provide us represents a for-oneself but also a for-the-other, no side of which can be overcome by/in the other. Indeed, there is no contradiction in this duality of the for-oneself and the for-the-other, and it must be maintained in order that desire should exist and its strength make effective our sexuate identity.
— Sharing the Fire by Luce Irigaray (Page 56)
It is hard to continue reading sexuate here, as non-cis readers of Irigaray must, as meaning “at least two (genders).” How can any pair of at least two produce an “internal unity”? I want to believe, but I also don’t wish to delude myself.