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... by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 feminist lack love solidarity subjectivity transference This essay is an attempt to work through a focal point of psychoanalysis that simultaneously has no coherent theory within in it: love. In opposition...

... connected to the world. Through an act of betrayal, Bersani leaves behind a Freudo-Proustian conception of desire as lack and embraces a concept of desire so radically exclusionary that it lacks nothing. Betrayal affords Bersani the opportunity to conceive of an ethical response to an inherently...

... offer evidence, or lack thereof, of criminal conduct. This legalistic style of criticism not only ignores the fictionality of incidences of rape in novels, but it replicates the prejudices inherent in historical rape law by centering the experiences of the accused character over and against the harm...

..., or thought; it acts, powerfully, in the real world. As in Europe today, the pressure of debts is related to a lack of credit for democracy and the future. Among the many examples of this relationship, the paper highlights Resistance Is Useless ( Resistere non serve a niente ), a novel by Walter Siti. ©...

... with regard to the relative lack of a visual record of the period. All three films profited from troves of personal letters. Von Trotta describes her slow “falling in love” with Arendt, a process abetted by the discovery of Arendt’s vulnerability. The decision to focus on the years of the Eichmann trial...

... without centralized control or the provision of a global model.” Such a vision constructs a benign and beneficent swarm that, although it lacks differentiation and specificity, accomplishes democracy without sovereignty. Achille Mbembe points out, nonetheless, that the swarm can have a more sinister...

..., our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover; we would remain the victims of its consequences forever, not unlike the sorcerer's apprentice who lacks the magic formula to break the spell.” Yet, precisely the imperative nature of forgiveness...

... of melancholy and arguing that this updated concept is, if not an alternative to neoliberal resilience, then perhaps a feminist method of handling it. This melancholy isn’t the failure to get over a lack, but the failure to keep pace with accelerationism, the failure to overcome harder, better, faster, stronger...

..., on the other hand, theorizes not the event but the drive to theorize the event—including the event of femininity—to make it precisely some thing , a symptom. But, as Lacan emphasized, the facts miss the point, and naming things is not the same as being able to articulate “the thing” of lack, the real...

..., the question of the rights of undocumented migrants in Turkey presents a major paradox. On the one hand, the undocumented migrants' lack of right to residence, work, and social security intensifies their vulnerability in the flexible, predominantly informal labor market. On the other hand, rights claims risk...

... it; no one is it. It is a question which opens up the Imaginary, the space in which the subjective formulas include such characteristically odd registers as "having" and "being." Humans "are" not something, neither do they "have" or "lack" something, yet these are categories of experience within which humans...

... for the setting up of reality testing." This is why Lacan says that the reality principle is an extension of the pleasure principle, but one that is organized by lack. IV. Not only identification, then, but even the "object-relation" is given by way of orality, insofar as the distinction between "being...

... the lacking subject, and a the objet a, which plugs the hole of lack. o is to be read as "desire of or for" ("Sade avec Kant" 129). This diagram suggests that every object of desire stands in for "being," according to what is in effect a fetishistic or substitutive paradigm. However, "being" and the phallus...

... by the desire of the Other (Television 82). The analysis of children reveals that anxiety emerges when the child becomes aware of the lack in the Other, which 8 Demanding the Impossible...

... drive. It is not introduced as the original food, it is introduced from the fact that no food will ever satisfy the oral drive, except by circumventing the eternally lacking object. (Four 179–80...

... Women Lack Until the 1980s, when feminism emerged as a major force in novel studies, scholars and critics by and large read novels novelistically. By reading novelistically, I mean that one identifi es a lack...

... biology and sexual identity. Furthermore, in patriarchal culture, femininity is devalued. As a number of feminists have demonstrated, in patriarchy woman is constructed as man's other, a negative alter ego he needs to feel complete. The feminine, therefore, is associated with lack, what man must d i f f e...

...Robert Scholes; Nancy R. Comley Copyright © 1993 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1993 Beegel Susan . “ ‘A Lack of Passion”: Its Background, Sources, and Composition History,” Ed. Hemingway's “A Lack of Passion,” “The ‘Lack of Passion...

... already complicit with the order ofthings, prey to its oppressive hierarchies-ifit can be seen at all. For the mark of passing successfully is the lack ofa mark ofpassing, ofa signifier ofsome difference from what one seems to be. In fact, passing can only name the very failure of passing, an indication...

... unconscious 180 Matrix and Metramorphosis a ceremony of the loss of the center. It starts with a blind spot. Like a disappearance, a vacuum, a silence on the fringes of consciousness. The sign points out a lack, understanding as margin of the non-understanding. Noticeable spaces temporarily cut by the chaos...