النظام الرمزي للأم (L’ordine simbolico della madre)

مقدمة

Muraro published “The Symbolic Order of the Mother” in 1991, after two decades of practice in the Milan women’s movement and in Diotima; a Spanish translation appeared in 1994 and an English one in 2018. The book begins with the difficulty of beginning in philosophy. Against Descartes, who starts from doubt and from the thinking self, Muraro proposes to start from knowing how to love the mother, who gave life and taught language: the mother tongue is the first order of meaning, and gratitude and debt to the mother are the basis of a symbolic order. Patriarchal culture, Muraro argues, has broken this link and made women strangers to language and authority. The symbolic order of the mother is not a biological fact but a relation that women can re-establish among themselves. The book became a central text of Italian difference feminism.

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