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differences (1989) 1 (3): 108–136.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . 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...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 1990
... on Hellenistic Ethics . Ed. Schofield M. and Striker G. . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1986 . Nussbaum Martha . “ The Therapy of Desire .” Martin Classical Lectures 1986, forthcoming 1990 . Nussbaum Martha . “ The Stoics on the Extirpation of the Passions .” Apeiron 20 ( 1987...
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differences (1998) 10 (1): 30–74.
Published: 01 April 1998
... , 1978 . Trans. of Le Séminaire, livre XI: Les quatres concepts fondamentaux de la psychanalyse. Ed. Miller Jacques-Alain . Paris : Seuil , 1973 . Lacan Jacques . “ The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious .” Écrits: A Selection . 292...
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differences (2001) 12 (2): 70–85.
Published: 01 September 2001
.... “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...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
... but the manifestation of an unconscious quest by which we recognize desire. Works Cited Apollon Willy . “ Aesthetics: A Space for What Cannot Be Said .” Psychoanalysis and Mondialisation Seminar . 2015–16 . Québec City and Montreal . Apollon Willy . “ The Development of the Psychoanalytic...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
... 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...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 197–227.
Published: 01 May 2019
...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...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 274–295.
Published: 01 July 1994
...Elizabeth Grosz Copyright © 1994 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1994 ELIZABETH GROSZ The Labors of Love. Analyzing Perverse Desire: An Interrogation of Teresa de Lauretis's The Practice ofLove Beyond Phallic Desire he recent publication of Teresa...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 104–112.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Tom Roach Bersanian fascination is not merely a fleeting affective state. It is, rather, a mode of inquiry and a form of being. If Bersani is initially fascinated with the antisocial nature of sexual desire, he later becomes enthralled with a notion of fascinated witnessing that reveals...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Elissa Marder In “Cradling,” a chapter of Baudelaire and Freud , Leo Bersani shows how desire rocks the self. Desire always manifests as a movement that draws the self both toward and away from the object that excites it. Rocking simultaneously invokes infantile erotic enjoyment, an adult sexual...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 267–275.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Forest Pyle A radical identification predicated on unlikeness: this is how Leo Bersani understands the singular mode of desiring that Emily Brontë invents in her incomparable novel. With Catherine and Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights offers new “forms of being,” untethered to the world (of society...
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differences (2024) 35 (1): 97–133.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., but it has also kept our sights set, perhaps too set, on deciphering the Asian woman both in the context of romance and as an object of desire. This essay recasts the narrative of Asian/white sexuality as one of minoritarian retribution, making the argument that insofar as Asian femininity forms the object...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 115–151.
Published: 01 September 2020
...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...
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differences (2018) 29 (2): 126–153.
Published: 01 September 2018
... 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...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 79–88.
Published: 01 May 2023
...S. Pearl Brilmyer This essay explores Leo Bersani’s relationship to deconstruction, arguing that although his thinking about language and signification is indebted to the deconstructive tradition, he ultimately departs from this tradition in his structural understanding of desire qua habit. A close...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of willing ourselves “to be less than who we are.” What does it mean to be “uncontaminated by a psychology of desire” and “unaccompanied by an essentially doomed and generally anguished interrogation of the other’s desire”? There can be no single answer to that ethically consequential question, which...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
...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...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 220–241.
Published: 01 December 2022
... 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...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 141–176.
Published: 01 December 2022
...), 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...
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differences (2020) 31 (1): 64–97.
Published: 01 May 2020
...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...
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