Notes on Bracha Ettinger

As Ettinger articulates it, the matrix is a dimension of the human psyche that exists beside the phallic. It’s a parallel track. The matrix, however, is grounded in female sexual difference, arising from our “universal intrauterine experience.” Hannah Arendt correctly points out that we are all born, but Ettinger takes this one step further, pointing out that we all develop in a womb.