THE TIME OF LIFE
1.Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, trans. E. F. Payne, vol. 2 (New York: Dover, 1966).
2. See on this subject Mircea Eliade, Patañjali and Yoga, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (New York: Schocken, 1969).
In India the Indo-European cultures have not destroyed or covered over the Asiatic aboriginal cultures. Numerous prepatriarchal cultural elements, closer to a feminine tradition, thus survive despite the Aryan contributions privileging the reign of the father and the characteristics of patriarchal economy.
To meditate on physical gestures, in particular the cosmic respiration of the Buddha, rather than on the logical subtleties of a Buddhist discourse, to speak of incarnations of Brahma and of his acts at the limit of the mortal and the immortal, the human, the divine, and the elementary is, as far as I am concerned, a deliberate choice which is careful to respect aboriginal cultures. The same goes for the utilization of the term Hindu.
In effect, the term Hinduism is often used to designate “the religious victory of the soil” (cf. Mircea Eliade, ibid., p. 176), namely, the forms of subsistence of pre-Aryan aboriginal traditions.
3. Cf. Lilian Silburn, Instant et cause: Le discontinu dans la pensée philosophique de L’Inde (Paris: J. Vrin, 1955, rpt., De Boccard, 1989).
THE WAY OF BREATH
1. On this subject see Luce Irigaray, I Love to You, trans. Alison Martin (New York: Routledge, 1995).
THE FAMILY BEGINS WITH TWO
1. “Acts of Pope John-Paul II,” Osservatore Romano, April 8, 1994, French translation in Catholic Documentation, May 15, 1994.
MIXING: A PRINCIPLE FOR REFOUNDING COMMUNITY
1. See on this subject Luce Irigaray, “The Family Begins with Two” (included in the present volume, first published in French in the journal Panoramiques: La famille malgré tout [1996], no.25); Sexes and Genealogies, trans. Gillian C. Gill (New York: Columbia University Press, 1993); Je, tu, nous: Toward a Culture of Difference, trans. Alison Martin (New York: Routledge, 1993); and I Love to You, trans. Alison Martin (New York: Routledge, 1995).
2. See on this subject Luce Irigaray, I Love to You, and “Homme et femme, une identité relationnelle différente,” in La place des femmes (La Découverte, 1995).