abject, the; mother
abjection; and domesticated animals; phobia as a form of; as theory of ambivalence. See also under cannibalism
Abraham, Nicholas, accent, action; freedom of
Agamben, Giorgio, The Open; on rights
alienation (alienating)
alter ego: of man
andrological machine
animal, the: abhorrence of; as abstract/generalized concept; appropriation of. See also under ethics; gaze; humanity; imitation; kinship; language; maternity; metaphor; name; response; rights; sacrifice; speaking; substitution; suffering; violence
animal ancestor(s); the myth of; and primitive men; and theory of evolution
animal culture
animal pedagogy; blindness to/disavowal of; and conception of rights; and notion(s) of humanity
animal phobias. See also Little Árpád; Little Hans; Rat-man; totemism; Wolf-man
anthropological machine, the. See also under humanity
anxiety; first cause of; general. See also under repression
Aristotle
asinanity
assimilation (assimilating); of animal instinct; of animal language/sounds; and eating; of the environment; symbolic. See also under language
as such, the; impossibility of
autoaffection
autoimmunity
Barbaras, Renaud
Beardsworth, Sara
behavior; and comportment. See also under trace
behaviorism
Behnke, Elizabeth
being of beings
Bentham, Jeremy
Berger, John
biological continuism
Birraux, Annie
blood; menstrual; as nourishing; sacred laws of. See also under kinship
body (bodies); living; and word(s)/meaning. See also embodiment; flesh; and under maternal; perception; reflection; speaking
boredom
Brody, Brigid
brotherhood (fraternity); as exclusionary; as an ideal
Brown, Wendy
Buber, Martin: I and Thou
Butler, Judith; Antigone’s Claim
Calarco, Matthew
cannibals (cannibalism); and abjection; and Eucharist; and sex; and spirituality. See also under humanity
captivation (captivity); as essence of animality; as fascination; in one’s environment. See also under instincts
Caputo, John
Carbone, Mauro
carnophallogocentrism (carnophallogocentric)
Carroll, David
Carroll, Lewis; Through the Looking Glass
castration; and cruelty to animals; and distinction between man and animal; and the father; and feelings of want
catastrophe
chiasm
civilization; and domestication; and eating animals; and nature; origin/onset of; as the telos of the primitives
clearing
concept(s) (conception); permanence of; powers of; of substitute; worthy of its name. See also under animal; purity
condensation
consciousness; as the divide between man and animal; and embodiment; human. See also under psyche
consent
contagion
contamination(s)
Cook, Alexander
Darwin (Darwinian); anti-; theory of evolution. See also under primal horde
Dasein; humanity of; and openness/unconcealment; origin of; as there-being. See also under freedom
death drive
De Beauvoir, Simone; The Coming of Age; The Second Sex. See also under primal horde
deconstruction; ethics of
defilement
Deleuze, Gilles; becominganimal; on Uexküll’s tick; on Wolf-man
De Man, Paul; Blindness and Insight; vs. Derrida on Rousseau; The Rhetoric of Blindness
Dennett, Daniel
Derrida, Jacques; Adieu; The Animal That Therefore I Am; “Choreographies”; “Circumfession”; “Eating Well”; “Fourmis”; “Geschlecht: Sexual Difference, Ontological Difference” ; “Geschlecht II: Heidegger’s Hand”; Glas; Of Grammatology; Of Hospitality; Monolingualism of the Other; The Politics of Friendship; Rogues; “A Silkworm of One’s Own”; Of Spirit; “Women in the Beehive”. See also under de Man; Heidegger
Descartes, René; Cartesian object; Cartesian subject
desire; unconscious
Diamond, Cora
differánce
difference(s); disavowal of; marked/remarked; ontology of; and opposition. See also under ethics; Geschlecht
disinhibiting ring
displacement; of animal for father; theory of
Dooley, Mark
Douglas, Mary
dream; -like. See also under imagination
Dumézil, Georges
duplicity; definition of; of instincts; of speech. See also under language
ecological conscience
ego
embarrassment. See also shame
embodiment; pure; shared. See also body; flesh; and under consciousness; kinship; vulnerability
Enlightenment ideals
environments (Umwelten); and freedom; and interpretation of symbols; and world. See also Uexküll; and under assimilation; captivation
equal protection
ethics; animal; care; of difference; of the extreme; and the face; hyperbolic; of limits; performative dimension of; of relationality; and responsiveness; sustainable; of witnessing. See also under deconstruction; morality; responseability
event(s); as incalculable; language as
excrement
existentialism
fact
Fallaize, Elizabeth
fantasy (fantasies); of eating and devouring; of rebirth
fault. See also lack
female
fiction
flesh. See also body; embodiment; and under kinship
forgiveness; and knowing; as possessions
Foucault, Michel
Frazer, G. J.
freedom; and Dasein; to eat; existential; of movement; paradox of; from reproductive chains; structural; woman’s. See also under action; environment; response-ability; rights
free speech
free will (freedom of will)
Freud, Sigmund; “Analysis of Phobia in a Five Year-Old Boy,”; “Anxiety and Instinctual Life”; “Inhibitions, Symptoms and Anxiety,”; “Instincts and Their Vicissitudes”; The Interpretation of Dreams; Moses and Monotheism; Totem and Taboo; “The Uncanny”
Garrison, Marsha
gaze (the look): of an animal; of a cat; of a dog; of the other; of the wolves
Genesis; the Fall; and forbidden fruits. See also under naming the animals
Genosko, Gary
Geschlecht; and difference. See also kinship
Gestalt theory
gift. See also forgiveness; hospitality; purity
Good, the
Great Ape Project
Grosz, Elizabeth
Guattari, Félix, ; becominganimal; on Uexküll’s tick; on Wolf-man
Guenther, Lisa
Guyer, Sara
habit(s)
Haraway, Donna; companion species
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
Heidegger, Martin; Agemban on; Derrida on; The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics; on Herder; “Letter on Humanism”; and Merleau-Ponty. See also under humanism
Herder, Johann Gottfried; “Essay on the Origin of Language”; Outlines of a Philosophy of the History of Man. See also under Heidegger
Holland, Nancy
homeopathy (homeopathic): methodology; remedy. See also under purity
hooks, bell
hospitality; infinite; universal. See also forgiveness; gift; purity
humanism (humanist); anti-; Enlightenment; Heidegger’s; Kristeva; Levinas’s; metaphysical
humanity: against animality; and the anthropological machine; and cannibalism; as a capacity to listen; and consent; and eating animals; essence of; as fine and beautiful; as historical development/reality; and kinship; and the lack; lateral union of animality and; limits of; and Oedipal complex; and the Other; and repression of maternal authority; and shame; and suffering/vulnerability; and the symbolic realm; and what we eat. See also under animal pedagogy; Dasein; representation
Husserl, Edmund
identity: claims; politics
image (the imago); animal’s sensitivity to; the function/role of; the primacy of
imaginary, the; as compensation; and sexual behavior; and the symbolic
imagination; as dreamlike
imitation (imitate); of animals; the ape’s powers of; and aping; and emulation; and responseability; the role of,; the temptation to. See also under separation
individuality
inequality: between man and animals; of men
inherent value. See also Regan
instinct(s): appropriation of; captivated by/encircled by; finer; as “mythology” of psychoanalysis; and pleasure; and repetition; speak by; and war. See also under assimilation; duplicity; reason
intercorporeity. See also body; embodiment; flesh
interpretation (interpret); ability to
intertwining (Ineinander)
Irigaray, Luce
Jaggar, Alison
Jones, Emma
jouissance
Kamuf, Peggy
Kant, Immanuel; “Perpetual Peace”
Kantian ideals
Keller, Evelyn Fox
Kennedy, Duncan
kinship(s): abyssal; animal; blood; as distinct from family; and embodiment/flesh; human; as an ideal; and incest prohibition; lateral; socially contingent character of; strange. See also under humanity
Kittay, Eva
Klein, Julie
Klein, Melanie
Kristeva, Julia; Hate and Forgiveness; Powers of Horror; on reproduction; The Sense and Nonsense of Revolt; on vulnerability. See also under humanism; primal horde
Lacan, Jacques; Écrits; “The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis” ; the mirror stage; “The Mirror Stage”; “Names of the Father Seminar”; on Totem and Taboo. See also under primal horde
lack. See also fault
language; acquisition of; animal; and assimilation; autonomy of; civilized; conventional; and duplicity; essence of; fetishism of; harbingers of; as the house of being; human; internal; as interrogation; as intimation; as manifestation; natural; origin of; and passion; performative dimension of; and purity; and responseability; semiotic dimension of. See also under events; speech; virtue
Lawlor, Leonard; This is Not Sufficient
Levinas, Emmanuel. See also face (under ethics)
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
life; bare; and existence; philosophy of
limitrophy
listening
literature
Little Árpád. See also animal phobias
Little Hans. See also animal phobias
Llewelyn, John
logical positivism, logical positivist
logos; of the sensible world
machine; metaphor. See also anthropological machine
MacKinnon, Catherine
Mader, Mary Beth
man’s dominion; and metaphors of standing; and naming the animals/the woman; and the shrinking biodiversity
Marder, Elissa
Margaroni, Maria
Marx, Karl
Masserman, Jules
mastering the impossible
maternal: authority; body. See also under phallus; separation
maternal thing, the
maternity; and animality; fear of
matriarchy. See also patriarchy
McBride, William
McNeill, William
melancholy
Merleau-Ponty, Maurice; Nature; Phenomenology of Perception; The Structure of Behavior; The Visible and the Invisible. See also chiasm; intertwining; and under Heidegger; science
metaphors (metaphoricity); animal; capacity for; first; floral; of melody; religious. See also under machine
metaphysical: abstractions; separationism
mimesis. See also imitation
Mitsein
monstration
monstrosity
Montaigne, Michel de
mood
moral impressions
morality; and ethics; first sign of. See also under taste
Morris, David
mother(s). See also maternal; and under abject
motherhood
mystery
naked (nude, nakedness); as first sign of knowledge; and shame; words. See also purity
name; of an animal; proper
naming the animals: in Genesis; naming of the sheep; as symbolic eating; as a way of possessing them. See also under man’s dominion
narcissistic wound
narrativity
nation(s)
natural: law; rights; selection
natural man, the
nature; abomination of; and “active improvement”; conquest of; and culture; as dynamic; providence of; reserve; resistance to; second; state of; voice of. See also under civilization; purity
necessity: and accident/chance; human; natural
need before need
neurosis (neuroses)
Nietzsche, Friedrich (Nietzschean)
O’Byrne, Anne
Oedipus (Oedipal): complex; drama; family. See also castration; and under humanity
origin(s); of man; paradox of. See also under civilization; Dasein; language
otherness (alterity); philosophies/philosophers of
patriarchy; becomes a fraternity; by-product of; circular logic of. See also matriarchy
perception: anonymity of; and the body; as the ground of phenomenology; as relational
phallus (phallic); maternal; phase; zone. See also castration
pharmakos
Plutarch
politics: bio-; possibility of; problem for. See also under identity
premature birth
presence; and absence; metaphysics of
pretense; double
primal father, the; as an animal; authority of; the death of
primal horde, the; and Darwin; and De Beauvoir’s example; Kristeva’s reading of; Lacan’s reading of; and Rat-man; and sisters. See also totemism
primal scene. See also Wolf-man
prohibition(s); against contact with maternal bodies; against ingesting blood; and aggressiveness; food (dietary); paternal. See also taboo; and under kinship
project(s)
property; beginning of; ownership; private; slaves as
psyche, the; and abject bodily fluids; and consciousness; and deception; using animals to define/explain
pure, the: impossibility of
pure heart
purification: as genocide; of lower lifeforms; rituals of
purity; of concepts (pure concepts); and eating; homeopathic; hyperbolic; impure; of nature; and sound
Rat-man, the. See also animal phobias
real, the
real family, the
reason; certainty of; and instinct
recognition
reflection; and body; distinguishing mark of
Regan, Tom; subject of a life
repetition; of performative utterances; reproduction as
representation: and absence/erasure; and humanity; man’s bleating as; the role of
repression; and anxiety; primal; and the return of the repressed
reproduction
response(s); to animals; and reaction(s); and self-delusion. See also under responsibility
response-ability (ability to respond); begins with trained reactions; and ethics; and freedom; and subjectivity. See also ethics; and under imitation; language
responsibility; exaggerated sense of; infinite; as motivated by radical differences; to response; and subjectivity; and vulnerability
responsiveness (responsivity); and subjectivity
revolt
right(s); animal; discourse; to dominate; to freedom; history of; human; and individualism; and law; legal; and protections; women’s. See also under Agamben; natural
Roof, Judith
Rosemont, Henry
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques; Confessions; A Discourse on Inequality; Émile; “On the Origin of Languages”. See also under de Man
sacrifice; of animals
Sand-man, the. See also uncanny
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Scarth, Fredrika
science; ambivalence toward; Merleau-Ponty’s reanimation of; and philosophy
Seigfried, Charlene Haddock
separation: and biblical food prohibitions; and imitation; within the inseparable; from the maternal; primal (first sense of)
Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana
shame
Shepherd of being
signifier; transcendental
Singer, Peter; Animal Liberation
Smith, William Robertson
Soler, J.
soul, the
speaking; animal/being; body; subject
species-being
speciesism. See also Singer
speech; deceptiveness of; and language; and oral aggression. See also free speech; and under duplicity
sphere (circle). See also environment
Spivak, Gayatri
staggered analogy
Starobinski, Jean
subjectivity (subjects); authorization of; becoming; formation; human; as “I”. See also under Descartes; response-ability; responsibility; responsiveness; speaking
sublimation
substitution (substitutability); of animal for father; of concept for thing; logic of; of man for animal; theory of
suffering; animal; capacity for; human. See also under humanity
Sullivan, Henry
supplement (supplementarity); faculty of; non-
symbiosis
symbolic, the
symbolization
taboo: incest
talking cure, the
taste; for a certain pronunciation; and morality
third sex
Thorens, Adèle
Toadvine, Ted
Torok, Maria
totemism; reverse. See also animal phobias
trace; behavior
translation; of the name. See also substitution
transposition (transposability)
trauma; birth
trophe
trophy
truth
Uexküll, Jakob von
uncanny, the (Unheimlich). See also Sand-man
unconditionality, ; of the incalculable
unconscious, the
unnamable, the; and fear
upright posture (standing erect)
Vallier, Robert
veganism
vegetarianism (vegetarian diet); benefits of; and the chief; Derridian; as symptomatic of a spiritual power
violence; establish one’s existence through; of excluding animals; our own investments in; pleasure in; toward animals; and unexamined traumas; and vulnerability; the worst
virtue(s); of language; of milk
vulnerability (vulnerable); embodied; primary. See also under humanity; Kristeva; violence
Wadiwel, Dinesh
war
Wills, David
Wilson, Catherine
Wolfe, Cary
Wolf-man, the. See also animal phobias; primal scene
womb envy
Wood, David
working through
world; forming/formation; poverty/poor in