... is symptomatic of the libidinal economy of capitalism and that it suggests a different conceptualization of capitalism itself. An economic theory necessarily involves ideas about what a human being is, what society is, and so on. The advantage economists have over other scholars concerned...

... access how historiographical methods participate in stabilizing gender and pathologizing black rage. This article proposes that the difference between the mistress and master is a fantasy necessary to the circulation of the libidinal economy of slavery. In doing so, it pursues an inquiry...

... a middle course between the Lacanian “object voice” of Mladen Dolar and the intense focus on human singularity of Adriana Cavarero. Through discussions of the libidinal economy circulating within certain mythological tropes (Sirens, Swan Maidens, Narcissus/Echo, etc.) as well as an aesthetic genealogy...

... singular pronoun also points to the role of fantasy within Lawrence's Arab "adventure," for egoism represents one of the primary features of that textual form. 24 However, whereas Freud associates the "characteristic of invulnerability" with the hero of most daydreams, a more ambivalent libidinal economy...

... of libidinal economies based on a binary opposition between lack and compensation. For these authors, it is because the people in Hong Kong are lacking in something essential - political power - that they have to turn their energies elsewhere, economics. And yet this elsewhere, this other development, which...

... from the phallocratic libidinal economy; in other words, the gay male narrator can write from an embodied subject-position, whose relation to male bodies affirms the male body as one oftwo possible sexual morphologies, and whose desiring relation to other male bodies does not provide an avenue through...

... it with Lacan, at the core of Nietzsche’s critique of ressentiment is the link between the renunciation of life and the production of surplus enjoyment, a link that can be directly associated with the problems addressed in Marx’s critique of social economy and Freud’s critique of libidinal economy...

... the starcancer of phallic erotics - by star-cancer I mean the flip-side of disaster - the narcissistic inflation as well as the ossified phallic disposition that overcompensates for it, by putting the libidinal economy of the phallus to work and by creating the epistemological field of a libidinal economy...

... passed away before the next, our attention now is directed to the facts that show us 239 how much of each earlier phase persists alongside of and behind the later configurations and obtains a permanent representation in the libidinal economy and character of the subject" (100). Similarly, in the Outline...

... that the simultaneous emergence of trauma studies and a second wave of Benjamin criticism in the 1990s was more than coincidental. Benjamin fetishism is symptomatic of a libidinal economy among academic critics who have institutionalized...

... Économie libidinale (Libidinal Economy) in 1974, a text in which the (universalized) tropes of pimp, client, and prostitute figure heavily in his account of exchange within political economy. Lyotard’s text partakes...

... the readings offered by Jacques Lacan and Claude Levi-Strauss, she has emphasized the manner in which an apparent hetero-sexual economy of desire operative within the laws of kinship and language in fact reproduces itself through a profound sexual indifference. The patriarchal symbolic reproduces itself...

... and acquisitive functions. eros, as distinguished from sexuality Sexuality: a partial drive, libidinal energy confined and concentrated in the erotogenic zones of the body, mainly: genital sexuality. Eros...

... . Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism . New York: Harvest/Harcourt, 1976 . Bales, Kevin. Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy . Berkeley: u of California p, 1999 . Castoriadis, Cornelius. “The Imaginary: Creation in the Socio-Historical Domain.” World in Fragments...

..., is subject to precisely the rhythm of tumescence and detumescence that characterizes a phallic economy. Taking up both a masculine and feminine positionality, Rambo becomes, in the words of Barbara Creed, "an anthropomorphised phallus, a phallus with muscles," a "simulacr[um] of an exaggerated masculinity...

..." is a theoretical exploration of gay male narrative as a practice ofwriting and of reading through which the gay male subject actively "disengages his sexuality from the phallocratic libidinal economy." Earl Jackson's reading of Robert Gluck's fiction and critical writings is guided by the feminist strategy...

...-preoccupation on the part of those who suffer physical illness or injury to be a kind of libidinal investment in pain. And he asks further whether this negative investment in one's own bodily discomfort can be understood as a kind of narcissism. For the moment I want to suspend the question of why...

... has always been identified with a phallocentric paradigm it has also been the haven of sapphic fantasies, themselves rooted in the dream of an alternative, feminocentric libidinal economy. In colonial fiction sapphism is often so prevalent that one might begin to interpret it in terms...

..., the drive continues to seek an outlet that bypasses consciousness. Unsurprisingly, the drive often surges forth as violence. But Freud indicates that the drive’s violent or frightening character is only an effect of the way it is “translated and presented to the neurotic” (149). In the neurotic’s libidinal...

... the desires of the subject “itself.” Žižek takes this observation one step further: “[W]e could even say that the will is a counter-movement to the drive, an attempt to re-inscribe the ‘asubjectal’ drive into the economy of the Ego as the agency of control and domination” (549). To that extent the drive...