Place is different from both matter and form because a vessel is always different than what it contains. Man, for men s sexual pleasure, well being, procreation, and social poignancy, sets women up as place. Irigaray gives the example of a woman in a house as compared to a man inside a woman or a child inside a womb. Woman as place, is a living bodily site. This means that his dependence on woman as his place is articulated through his restriction of women to domestic antisocial spaces, and places, while his life consists of intervals in time, in linear rationality and in intelligibility.
Women have no place for themselves.
Something not of this world. Where De Beauvoir argues for women's transcendence of nature, Irigaray notices that the success of male endeavors in social spaces is owed to women's position of spatiality. Man forgets all notion of being bodily through constructing worlds. He forgets that his constructions began in the body and for the body. Yet to be other is to be multiple, without clear boundary, frayed, insubstantial.