The Logic of Pregnancy

Abstract This article takes its point of departure in Bracha Ettinger’s discussion on the “matrixial borderspace”: the structure of the experience of “the womb,” both from a “mother-pole” and a “fetus-pole”. Ettinger describes this borderspace as a place of differentiation-in-co-emergence, separatio...

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Published in:The Journal of medicine and philosophy 2023-04, Vol.48 (2), p.128-140
Main Author: Bornemark, Jonna
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bracha Ettinger
Critical and Cultural Theory
Female
Humans
Kritisk kulturteori
law of identity
Logic
logic of life
Nicholas of Cusa
Pregnancy
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Summary:Abstract This article takes its point of departure in Bracha Ettinger’s discussion on the “matrixial borderspace”: the structure of the experience of “the womb,” both from a “mother-pole” and a “fetus-pole”. Ettinger describes this borderspace as a place of differentiation-in-co-emergence, separation-in-jointness, and distance-in-proximity. The question this article poses is what kind of logic this experience is an expression of, as there seems to be a discrepancy in relation to the classical Aristotelian logic of identity. As an alternative to classical Aristotelian logic, Nicholas of Cusa’s logic of the non-aliud is explored as a paradigm more in line with Ettinger’s description of pregnancy specifically and more generally, to an understanding of life as a co-poietic emergence of structures of pactivity and permeability.
ISSN:0360-5310
1744-5019
1744-5019
DOI:10.1093/jmp/jhad005