M

Marie Germain, 186 , 188 , 189 , 190 , 199

maternity:

elided by paternity, 35 -36, 204 , 205 , 206 , 209 ;

as nurturing, 205 ;

"sine patre," 206 , 207 ;

and writing, 206 -7.

See also Essais

Mathieu-Castellani, Gisèle, 227 n.8, 235 n.5, 236 nn.9,11, 240 n.27, 241 n.28

Matoré, Georges, 227 n.9

McKinley, Mary, 233 n.1, 234 n.2, 237 n.15

metaphor:

as catachresis, 179 , 184 ;

defined in Poetics , 45 ;

and metonymy, 26 , 84 , 179 ;

and monstrousness, 179 ;

and transfer of seed, 45 -47

mimesis:

seed as agent of, 46 -47;

of speech, 21

misogyny, 8 , 185 , 197 , 202 , 203 , 204 , 217 , 219

monstrousness, 4 , 7 -8, 11 ;

and conception of Essais , 154 -56, 160 ;

as difference and incongruity, 153 , 166 -67, 176 ;

and female birth, 181 , 206 ;

and male birth, 184 , 196 ;

in man, 169 -70, 173 , 179 , 231 n.12;

and melancholy, 235 n.4;

as miracle, 169 ;

and nature, 158 -60, 167 ;

seed and, 46 -47, 154 , 156 , 160 -61, 173 ;

shame of, 162 -63;

as showing, 163 -67, 219 -20;

as sickness, 155 , 171 , 235 n.3;

textual child as, 153 , 206 ;

as the unfamiliar, 168 , 169 ;

and writing, ordered by, 157 -58, 164 , 207

Montaigne, Michel de:

as father, 1 , 3 , 16 -17, 50 , 53 , 125 , 130 , 134 , 151 , 184 ;

as friend, 29 , 48 -49, 56 ;

as monster, 7 , 154 , 157 , 169 -70, 180 , 207 ;

as nemo , 138 -40, 150 , 171 ;

as woman, 35 , 199 , 204 , 211 , 220 -21.

See also Essais