...Martha Nussbaum Therapeutic Arguments and Structures of Desire MARTHA NlSSBAl'\tl I begin with a passage from the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (fourth-third century Be), who, in his Letter to Menoeceus, asked how human beings can be released from certain social and psychological constraints...

...Charles Shepherdson CHARLES SHEPHERDS ON The Gift of Love and the Debt of Desire It is the child one feeds with most love who refuses food and plays with his refusal as with a desire (anorexia nervosa). (Lacan, "Direction" 264/628)1 The a, the object, falls. That fall is primal. The diversity...

.... “Reading Nicole Brossard.” ellipse 53 ( 1995 ): 9 –21. Kristeva, Julia. “Psychoanalysis and the Polis.” Trans. Margaret Waller. The Kristeva Reader . Ed. Toril Moi. New York: Columbia UP, 1986 . 301 –20. Lecercle, Jean-Jacques. Philosophy through the Looking Glass: Language, Nonsense, Desire...

... of Feminist Cultural Studies 4 . 1 ( 1992 ): 133 – 70 . de Lauretis Teresa . The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire . Bloomington : Indiana UP , 1994 . Grosz Elizabeth . “ Experimental Desire: Bodies and Pleasures in Queer Theory .” The Subject . Ed. Copjec...

... . Gilbert Sandra M. , and Gubar Susan . The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination . New Haven : Yale UP , 1979 . Girard René . Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure . Trans. Freccero Yvonne...

... identification or libidinal cathexes but by foregrounding the experience of the desiring subject. It takes as its point of departure Jacques Lacan's definition of anxiety as “the affect that responds to the desire of the Other.” If love is about the strategies of seduction that sustain the imaginary coherence...

... but the manifestation of an unconscious quest by which we recognize desire. © 2017 by Brown University and differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies act acting out drive Sigmund Freud Jacques Lacan repression transference Evoking the adage homo homini lupus , along with a chapter from...

...Jennifer C. Nash “Pedagogies of Desire” explores how women’s studies—a field that has long engaged sex as a space steeped in power, hierarchy, and inequality—has come to invest in affirmative consent as the sexual ethic that can produce sex as a territory free of violence. This essay explores...

... women to embrace their power and desirability in American society. At the same time, the literature reveals a nostalgic desire for a world where men were providers, women could afford to be the weaker sex, and traditional marriage could be a path to both personal and group advancement. Advocates offer...

...Michelle Rada With common unhappiness as its curative horizon, psychoanalysis deserves—indeed, it requires—the hysteric’s famous challenge to Freud: what, and whom, is analysis for? Motivated by the hysteric’s desire for a better life and Freud’s commitment to the social dimension of the psyche...

...), and, Lacan adds, the hysteric’s discourse (desiring and protesting). The latter’s innovative addition is what I explore in this paper: how the hysteric makes and breaks institutions with their desire by “going on a kind of strike.” The social bond, for Lacan, is demonstrated most dramatically by the hysteric...

... act as a possible path for the unbound drive upon traversing castration. It argues that the Pass is, specifically, a transindividual act of solidarity with desire that extends its ethics and efficacy beyond both the institutional frameworks of psychoanalysis and the control of cultures...

...Jake Silver This article explores the shape of queer sexual habits and gendered forms of desire along the Jerusalem light rail, a route whose role in normalizing Israeli occupation and colonialism has been hotly contested during its construction and since its opening in 2011. Analyzing how...

... of melancholy gender, the author contends that this subjectivity enables a recognition of the same-sex love and desire prohibited by heterosexist culture through an enactment of its loss. As such, avatar suicide videos dramatize death in order to create an important space of public grieving in which...

...Ani Maitra In radical Lacanian cultural critique, affirmations of unconscious desire and the reinvention of the symbolic order are frequently founded upon dismissals of the imaginary ego and its paranoid obsessions with meaning, coherence, and identity politics. By bringing Lacan’s theorization...

...Nancy Armstrong During the 1840s, British novels suddenly abandoned the country manor house and advocated a greatly diminished, single-family household as the only way of life that was necessary, natural, desirable, and morally right. Insofar as they indicated that the unpaid labor of a wife...

...Shannan L. Hayes This essay interrogates the forms of feminist political desire and subject formation being reproduced under the heading of contemporary feminist art. The author considers two recent exhibitions, similarly organized around the theme of intersectionality, that took place over two...

... between language, interpretation, and desire, as well as their disconnects. The piece also questions the uninterpretable and asks, particularly with respect to psychosis: what does it mean to be situated somewhere outside of the bounds of interpretation? medical interpretation phenomenology...

... studies, intersectionality, and desubjectivation. The reflections are motivated by a desire to take seriously feminist theory’s antifoundationalist foundations in reapproaching the ethical rifts that have divided queer theorists from feminists. In place of a liberatory sexuality or a new materialist...

...Lyndsey Stonebridge Why is it that we respond to the deaths of others in wartime with an apparent indifference? What is it about our desire that so readily accommodates the representation of the death of others? This article addresses these questions through a reading of Freud's 1915 essay on war...