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[[Psycholinguistics|psycholinguist]] and [[culture theory|cultural theorist]] [[Luce Irigaray]] "ridicules" through "mimicry and exaggeration" these representations of femininity posited as natural and proper by Lacan.<ref>{{cite book |last= Irigaray|first=Luce |date=1985|author-link=Luce Irigaray|title=Speculum of the Other Woman|publisher=[[Cornell University]] Press |isbn= ‎ 978-0801493300}}</ref> Irigaray accuses Lacan of perpetuating [[Phallocentrism|phallocentric]] mastery in philosophical and psychoanalytic discourse.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Irigaray|first1=Luce |date=2011 |title=Cosi Fan Tutti|journal=Continental Aesthetics Reader}}</ref> Others have echoed this accusation, seeing Lacan as trapped in the very phallocentric mastery his language ostensibly sought to undermine.<ref>[[Jacqueline Rose]], "Introduction – II", in Juliet Mitchell and Jacqueline Rose, ''Feminine Sexuality'' (New York 1982) p. 56</ref> The result, [[Castoriadis]] would maintain, was to make all thought depend upon Lacan himself, and thus to stifle the capacity for independent thought among all those around him.{{r|n=Roudinesco 1997|p=386}}
 
In an interview with anthropologist James Hunt, actress [[Sylvia Bataille|Sylvia Bataille-Lacan]] said of her late second husband, Jacques Lacan, that he was: "a domestic tyrant."<ref>{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=James Kennedy|date=1995|title=Absence to presence: The life history of Sylvia [Bataille] Lacan (France)|url=https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/16832/9610654.PDF?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|access-date=29 October 2023|website=Rice Digital Scholarship|quote=He was a man who worked tremendously hard. Tremendously intelligent. He was... what is called, well, a domestic tyrant... But he was worth the trouble. I have absolutely no reproaches to make against him. Just the contrary. But it was not possible to be a wife, a mother to my children, and an actress at the same time." ...<ref>{{Cite Iweb|last=Hunt|first=Jamer couldKennedy|date=1995|title=Absence noto longerpresence: makeThe filmslife becausehistory of Sylvia [LacanBataille] Lacan (France)|url=https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/16832/9610654.PDF?sequence=1&isAllowed=y|access-date=24 HeOctober would2020|website=Rice comeDigital onto the set when the light was red [and] would stridde across the set when we were in the midst of a scene.Scholarship}}</ref>
 
===Incomprehensibility===