Introduces the paper by Luce Irigaray titled 'Sorcerer Love.' Sorcerer Love as name given by Irigaray to the demonic function of love as presented in Plato's 'Symposium'; Argument that Socrates attributed two incompatible positions to the character Diotima.

Three methodological assumptions are proposed, with examples, for the development of a feminist linguistics: (1) presuppositions of gender in the structure of language, as well as its meaning and its use, are cultural rather than individual; (2) there is a clash between cultural and individual assumptions of gender indicative of an irrationality not captured by the standard competence/performance distinction and found in speakers of either sex; 3) speakers and hearers can become self-reflectively aware of these clashes by making them explicit.