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Mainstreaming Fantasy: Politics without Reserve
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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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Excitement
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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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2002: A Reading Appeal
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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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The Student of Metaphor
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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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Writing the Drive: From Freud’s Theory of Bisexuality to Wittgenstein and the Limits of Language
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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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Happiness
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 144–149.
Published: 01 May 2023
... farewell to an immediacy that must necessarily and naturally be renounced. Against that conception of tempered human felicity, Bersani notes that Freud moves from a liberal to fully tragic account of sexuality; in 1908 one can imagine that the enjoyment of heterosexual love would create enough...
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Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse
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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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“Adorno avec Sade...”
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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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Camp, Masculinity, Masquerade
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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
... conspiratorial inventiveness. In other words, dying also came with enjoyment: jouissance. The Trumpian subject, in a mix of mortification, embarrassment, rage, and masochistic enjoyment, breaks out of symbolic structures and jumps into modes of simply elemental living and dying. The passage à l’acte provides...
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Drink Responsibly: On Morality and Perversion
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 117–138.
Published: 01 December 2024
... that there is no moment of infantile responsiveness that precedes sexuality’s effects. The recent discourse of perversion will help illuminate this issue. Returning to Benvenuto’s claim that perverse sexuality isn’t about the inappropriate use of particular objects, but the enjoyment derived from denying the other...
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Failure
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 May 2023
...; his jouissance comes from being, so to speak, fucked from the start. Bersani tracks this relationship between failure and enjoyment in “Is the Rectum a Grave?” in an attempt to demonstrate the radical potential that inheres in the aberrant nature of sexuality “advertised” by what might be described...
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Spectacular Sex: Thought and Pleasure in the Encounter with Pornography
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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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Language, Body, Drive: Rereading Totem and Taboo through Jakobson and Lacan
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 46–64.
Published: 01 September 2017
... 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 of the totem. How are these two taboos interrelated, and how do they relate to the specific...
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No Such Thing as Society? On Competition, Solidarity, and Social Bond
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 51–71.
Published: 01 December 2022
...—inverted because, unlike the Freudian pleasure principle, which pursues a state of equilibrium (renewal of ideal homeostasis, or the state of absence of excitation), it pursues, rather, a state of perpetual disequilibrium. Surplus value in Marx and surplus enjoyment in Lacan (or what Freud calls...
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What Is the Institutional Form for Thinking?
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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
... by the demystifying protocols of consciousness raising on the left—is crucial to constructing politics. “By placing knowledge at the foreground,” McGowan writes, most leftist movements dismiss fantasy as the vehicle of ideology and, as a result, “cede the terrain of enjoyment” ( “Mainstreaming” 178 ). Doing so...
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Therapeutic Arguments and Structures of Desire
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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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Bearing the Intolerable: Analytic Love
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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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Feminist Film Theory: Osaka, circa 1866
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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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