The Mediation of Touch

by Luce Irigaray

The first communication between human beings, the one between the newborn and the mother, happens through touch. Strangely this first way of relating to each other has barely been considered by our education and our culture, which have favoured sight to the detriment of touch. And yet touching and being touched means experiencing ourselves as living beings. For lack of such a touch, we do not perceive the limits nor the sensitive potential of our...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031374126
• ISBN13: 9783031374128
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"