The Feminine Symptom: Aleatory Matter in the Aristotelian Cosmos

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accident: and being, 40–41; and biology, 57; and causation, 9–10, 39–50, 66; and epistemology, 43; and essence, 42–43; and female offspring, 38–39; and female state, 84; and motion, 143; and necessity, 38–39, 50, 84, 252n64; and negativity, 43; and privation, 195; Urbanas on, 251–52n56, 252n64 activity: and agency, 196; and masculinity, 27–28, 35, 37, 64, 67, 176, 199, 200, 201, 202, 248n4, 255n37; and sexual reproduction, 37, 64, 67, 200, 201, 202, 255n37; and spontaneous generation, 77 actuality: and craftsman analogy, 63; as energeia, 24, 63, 75, 78, 85, 90, 153, 178, 183, 186, 200, 202, 203, 206, 208, 219, 220; as entelecheia, 166, 177–82; and motion, 147–48, 166, 167, 273n25; and place, 131, 132; in Plato’s Timaeus, 90; and prime mover, 151–56 adunamia, 16, 24, 185–86, 201–2, 209– 13, 220–21 Aeschylus, 54 against/contrary to nature, 1, 3, 10, 23, 39, 46, 48, 49, 52, 56, 66, 73, 74, 133, 137, 141–43, 150, 159, 162, 166, 168, 169, 188, 211, 223, 226, 231 Agamben, Giorgio, 221 Ahmed, Sara, 289n53 air, element of. See four elements aithēr, 77, 132, 145, 146–48, 150, 174, 272n22 aitia, 30, 31, 32, 65, 249n18 Albertus Magnus, 73, 257n82 aleatory feminism, 25, 225, 234, 240, 241–42, 247n43 aleatory phenomena: and adunamia, 212, 213; and artistic practice, 161–62; and biology, 49, 57, 60, 67; and causation, 9–10, 28, 39–50, 73–75; and coincidence, 28, 49, 61; and coming-to-be, 41, 42, 46, 47, 49, 50, 144, 163–64; and compulsive necessity, 56–57, 65; and “falling together,” 7, 11, 20, 22, 28, 66, 79, 84, 98, 116, 129, 130, 141, 143, 160; and feminine symptom, 3–4, 28, 46, 51, 57, 84, 85, 143, 169; and matter, 28, 29, 42, 48–50, 56–57, 133–34, 162–63, 176, 182, 188, 199; and motion, 47, 50, 66, 143, 182; multiplicity as source of, 48, 66; and place, 134, 135; and plurality, 47, 56, 150; political aspects of, 224–25, 236–37; and sexual reproduction, 3, 38–39, 209; and spontaneous generation, 80–81; sumpt ma, 7, 11, 22, 28, 66, 84, 98, 116, 129, 130, 141, 143; and superlunary sphere, 150–51; and teleology, 3, 28, 65, 66, 85, 169, 176, 223. See also accident; automaton; chance; clinamen; luck alterity, 75, 99, 120, 142, 148, 155, 191–93, 203, 209, 230, 235, 238, 242 Althusser, Louis, 9, 161, 164, 225, 226, 232, 235–37 anaclitic attachment, 22, 122, 123, 138, 147, 169 anankē, 28 Anaxagoras, 57, 68, 214 Anaximander, 54, 253–54n11 animal motion, 169–76 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 108–9, 238 Apostle, Hippocrates G., 34, 73–74, 252n67, 257n82, 266n9, 269n41 appearance, Heidegger on, 14 i n de x Index 310 Aquinas, Thomas, 73, 74, 177, 257n82 archai, 29, 30 archē, 33, 68, 75, 86, 149–50, 155, 156, 157, 173, 175, 192, 195, 197, 198, 201, 203, 206, 277n102, 281n72; and archē kinēseōs, 35, 46, 47, 50, 59, 66, 67, 133, 146, 156, 159, 162, 176, 192, 197, 206, 259n91 Aristophanes, 71, 121, 267n25 atomism, 17, 48, 52, 57, 66, 89, 160– 61, 162, 195, 225, 231, 252n67 autoimmunity, 144 automaton, 28, 43–46, 48, 51, 66, 168; and animal motion, 170; contradictory aspects of, 73; and Darwinism, 81; distinguished from tuchē, 73–74; etymology of, 68–72; externality vs. internality of, 73–76, 257–58n82; literary references to, 69–72; as mechanism, 67–68, 72, 75, 113, 173; as against nature, 73–74; and necessity, 52; psychoanalytic aspects of, 71–72, 79; as self-moving, 67, 68, 70, 79, 80–81, 113; and spontaneous generation, 67 Bacchae (Euripides), 233 Bachofen, J. J., 107, 233 Balibar, Étiennne, 235 Balme, David M., 59, 254n23, 256n59, 258n88 Baracchi, Claudia, 227 Barad, Karen, 239 Barthélémy Saint-Hilaire, Jules, 73, 257n82 bastard reasoning, 12, 22, 98, 103, 109, 118, 171, 180, 220, 265n79 Beauvoir, Simone de, 121, 234, 258n89 becoming: and automaton, 80; and contraries, 202; and dunamis/ matter relation, 188–90, 210; and the feminine, 102, 222; and materialism, 57; in Plato’s Timaeus, 86, 87, 90, 94, 96, 98, 99, 100, 109, 110, 114, 260n108. See also coming-to-be being, 40, 157, 168, 251n52, 267n9; modalities of, 183–84; and motion, 177–80, 182; in Plato’s Timaeus, 96, 99, 100; twofoldness of, 24, 178, 186, 194, 198, 212, 216, 240 Benjamin, Walter, 236, 288n45 Bennett, Jane, 239...