Introduction: The primary event of peace: Femininity, com-passionate hospitality, and aesthetic wit(h)nessing in Bracha L. Ettinger's matrixial psychoanalysis.

One of the crucial differences between Ettinger and Butler is that for Ettinger the individual subject, male or female, of any gender, is informed by the feminine-maternal via its matrixial subjectivity. Furthermore, to foreground Ettinger's implicit contribution to queer theory, for instance, I shall focus on the productive tensions between Ettingerian psychoanalysis and Judith Butler's social ontology, precisely to underline the critical, ontological, and epistemological questions that are at stake in Ettinger's theoretical and artistic practice. Keywords: Com-passion; Feminism; Lacan; Levinas; Aesthetics; Ethics; Matrixial; Bracha L. Ettinger EN Com-passion Feminism Lacan Levinas Aesthetics Ethics Matrixial Bracha L. Ettinger 466 484 19 12/09/22 20221201 NES 221201 Copyright comment Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. [Extracted from the article]