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differences (2019) 30 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2019
...Samia Vasa In 2002, the state of Gujarat in India erupted in extreme anti-Muslim violence. The sexual violence against Muslim women and girls was particularly brutal. Survivors bore witness not only to the violence and destruction but also to the intense sexual enjoyment of the Hindu rapists...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 177–197.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Todd McGowan The political problem that we suffer from is not our adherence to ideological fantasies that promise us an enjoyment that is false or unattainable. The political struggle does not involve an effort to escape the pull that fantasy has over us so that we can look at the situation...
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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 (2006) 17 (3): 195–204.
Published: 01 December 2006
... on a sentence” (29), she’s sentenced instead to wander the desert of political and historical criticism. Her enjoyment 198 The Student of Metaphor invaded by the Nazi taint now...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 65–85.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is meaningful only if it gives a logical picture of a possible state of affairs in the world, any use of language that does not give a logical picture of how things might be in the world is “nonsense.” The only function of language is to speak of the world. Desire, demand, and enjoyment are excluded from...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 144–149.
Published: 01 May 2023
... can imagine that the enjoyment of heterosexual love would create enough enjoyment to release civilization from its overly repressive mismanagement of desire, but by Civilization and Its Discontents Freud claims that the “model for all happiness” is a “sexual love” that also finds sexuality...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 174–198.
Published: 01 July 1994
... . Sedgwick Eve Kosofsky . Epistemology of the Closet . Berkeley : U of California P , 1990 . Žižek Slavoj . For They Know Not What They Do: Enjoyment as a Political Factor . London : Verso , 1991 . Žižek Slavoj . Looking Awry: An Introduction to Jacques Lacan through Popular...
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 6–19.
Published: 01 May 2006
... “Adorno avec Sade . . .” whereby a certain jouissance constitutive of the law is simultaneously ejected by the law—delegated to an agency that assumes the impossible burden of my enjoyment. Lack is simultaneously affirmed...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 146–173.
Published: 01 July 1994
... maternally and viewed in its malignancy and decay (8-13). This location of the maternal body as site of nauseous enjoyment is another face of the phallus, another face of the object cause of desire that is the objet a, and another face of that "leftover of enjoyment beyond meaning, resisting symbolization...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2023
... political “doing” has either transformed into a politics of eternal “being” (race, gender, nationality) and “feeling” (hate, mockery, sacrificial enjoyment) or has degenerated to a dimension of “doing” that is pure violent acting: hourly mass shootings, assaults and attempted murder on politicians...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 May 2023
... the solipsism, the isolation it evokes by deriving enjoyment, not from self-negation alone, but from “losing the self and discovering it elsewhere, inaccurately replicated” ( “Conversation” 6 ). The task of imagining “new relational modes” (Foucault), however, necessarily gets complicated for Bersani...
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differences (2006) 17 (2): 113–131.
Published: 01 September 2006
... response in the sub- ject, pornography requires that the subject achieve enjoyment through an understanding—albeit an unconscious understanding—of the status and meaning of the scenes it contains...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 46–64.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of (metaphorical) identity, then, the primal father also stands for Eros, the drive to ever greater unities. With this we return to the specific problem of the incest taboo in animistic-totemic cultures as exogamous imperative and the question of the allied taboo on any destructive consumption or enjoyment...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 51–71.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the transformation of avarice (greed) into the drive of capital understood as both material and symbolic force; this leads him to think surplus value as systemic enjoyment. At the center of these endeavors stands one crucial problem: modern socioeconomic and moral order (and capitalism is ultimately both...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 19–31.
Published: 01 May 2010
... not at the service of knowledge, but—and I fear saying this in public—based on an experience of enjoyment that is at the service of truth. Did I really write that? Could we imagine the humanities based on enjoyment, a collaborative...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
... writes, most leftist movements dismiss fantasy as the vehicle of ideology and, as a result, “cede the terrain of enjoyment” ( “Mainstreaming” 178 ). Doing so is a strategic blunder because enjoyment, however disavowed, is a powerful and ever-present force in politics. Political movements are always...
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 1990
... want to begin this inquiry. The passage goes as follows: The truly pleasant life is not produced by an unbroken succession of drinking bouts and revels; not by the enjoyment of boys and women andfish and the other things that a luxurious table presents. It is produced by sober reasoning that seeks out...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 262–279.
Published: 01 December 2022
... and Their Vicissitudes,” that psychoanalysis typically concentrates on what motivates our desires and our enjoyments, which are not always coincident with a definition of love. True also in the sense that Lacan often emphasized that one couldn’t “speak” of love, that it was nonsense to locate it firmly in a discourse...
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differences (2002) 13 (3): 24–63.
Published: 01 December 2002
...MARGHERITA LONG 2002 margherita long is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her article “Tanizaki and the Enjoyment of Japanese Culturalism”appears in the fall 2002 issue of positions: east asia cultures critique...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 141–176.
Published: 01 December 2022
... symptom, her enjoyment: “a work for which she is never compensated but for which she in fact pays” (36). A hysterical student pays to study for the knowledge that exploits her symptom and, indeed, makes it her work to understand it. When it comes to this precarious subject, Colesworthy argues, her life...
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