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differences (2012) 23 (1): 131–150.
Published: 01 May 2012
...Amber Jamilla Musser Through the philosopher Gilles Deleuze, reading and writing can begin to be thought of as processes of transformation. When one reads or writes, one plugs into impersonal flows and affects and becomes something else. Likewise, Deleuze theorizes masochism as an embodied practice...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 55–87.
Published: 01 November 1989
... and Schizophrenia . Trans. Hurley Robert , Seem Mark , and Lane Helen R. . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1983 . Deleuze Gilles and Guattari Félix . Masochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty . New York : George Brazilier , 1971 . Derrida Jacques . “ Le...
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 94–121.
Published: 01 September 2021
... of promising and its forgetting— and discovers, at the very foundation of every promise, the unlikely expression of a promise of oblivion. Through readings of Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, Kafka, and others, this promise of oblivion emerges as the very condition of possibility of all promising: oblivion must...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 2023
... relation to masochism. Very similar notions of self-shattering not structured by the other, the world, or the couple are formulated by Gilles Deleuze in the late 1960s, but in this case as characteristics of Sadean demonstrative reason fully distinct from a psychoanalytic position that would insist...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 95–103.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Bobby Benedicto This essay examines the role of failure in the work of Leo Bersani through the lens of self-shattering, impersonal narcissism, and castration. It revisits Bersani’s account of narcissism and masochism in “Erotic Assumptions” and critiques his subsequent shift toward impersonal...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 88–107.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . Freud Sigmund . The Ego and the Id . 1923 . The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Trans. and ed. Strachey James . Vol. 19 . London : Hogarth , 1954 . 3 - 66 . 24 vols. 1953-74 . Freud Sigmund . “ The Economic Problem of Masochism...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... that has nothing in common with the icy discipline the masochist seeks ( Sacher-Masoch 259 ). The function of the masochistic contract is to constrain or “force” the manifestation of this ideal by obliging the partner to play a specific and highly scripted role or to animate very precise traits or gestures...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 3–54.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . 177 - 204 . 24 vols. 1953-74 . Freud Sigmund . “ Creative Writers and Day-Dreaming .” 1908 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 9 . 143 - 53 . Freud Sigmund . “ The Economic Problem of Masochism .” 1924 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 19 . 157 - 70 . Freud Sigmund...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 July 1996
... . Faludi Susan . Backlash: The Undeclared War against American Women . New York : Crown , 1991 . Fasteau Marc Feigen . The Male Machine . New York : Delta , 1975 . Freud Sigmund . “ The Economic Problem in Masochism .” 1924 . General Psychological Theory . Ed. Rieff...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 May 2023
... be called “eroticized” but not simply “sexual”: they’re aims of “sexuality independent of sex” (32). Because this “primary sublimation” of image-exchanges is pleasurable but must also be painful precisely because it’s mobile, it’s essentially a primary masochism: the erotics of the unbinding and shattering...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 62–99.
Published: 01 July 1994
... States, 1940–1970 . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 1983 . Deleuze Gilles . Masochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty . New York : Braziller , 1971 . Duggan Lisa . “ The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century...
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 100–118.
Published: 01 May 2019
... is to be compromised, or entirely given over to the terms of the ruling class. The more women feel good about sex, the more complicit they are in sexual hierarchies. According to MacKinnon, femininity is pure masochism, and that is bad for women. The social and the sexual are so seamlessly sutured that women simply...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 235–243.
Published: 01 May 2023
... of ébranlement , of sexual shattering, by [his] more recent modulation of masochism into another, less dramatic, this time socially viable version of ego disidentification” ( “Broken” 414–15 ). He then clarifies what this “version of ego disidentification” means: “the milder sensual pleasure of discovering our...
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differences (1989) 1 (3): 187–188.
Published: 01 November 1989
... .” Winter , 1989 : 101 - 24 . Newfield Christopher . “ The Politics of Male Suffering: Ambivalence and Masochism in The Scarlet Letter. ” Fall , 1989 : 55 - 87 . Rabine Leslie Wahl . “ Essentialism and Its Contexts: Saint-Simonian and Post-Structuralist Feminists .” Summer , 1989...
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differences (1992) 4 (1): 76–83.
Published: 01 April 1992
... . “ The Psychology of Women in Relation to the Functions of Reproduction .” International Review of Psychoanalysis 6 ( 1925 ): 405 - 18 . Deutsch Hélène . “ The Significance of Masochism in the Mental Life of Women .” International Journal of Psychoanalysis 11 ( 1930 ): 48 - 60 . Kress Rosen...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 117–156.
Published: 01 May 2009
... : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2009 suzanne stewart-steinberg is Associate Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature and Director of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Sublime Surrender: Masochism and the Crisis of Masculinity at the Fin de...
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 224–225.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of
Feeling.” 23.2: 20–41.
Musser, Amber Jamilla. “Reading, Writing, and Masochism: The Arts of
Becoming.” 23.1: 131–50.
Reber, Dierdra. “Headless Capitalism: Affect as Free-Market Episteme.”
23.1: 62–100...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 89–94.
Published: 01 May 2023
... that “sexuality would be that which is intolerable to the structured self” (38). Inspired by Laplanche, Bersani understands the drama of sexuality as arising from an infantile “susceptibility to the sexual” (38–39). There, he goes on to show that masochism is, paradoxically, “a psychic strategy” that “allows us...
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 119–125.
Published: 01 May 2023
...? 4 What nonsuicidal forms of masochism does gay sex have to offer? One sexual practice—on the line of flight composed by the disorientation, unreason, and cultural unintelligibility that interest Bersani in gay sex—is fisting. Although Foucault celebrates it as the only newly invented sex...
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differences (1992) 4 (1): 172–204.
Published: 01 April 1992
... of the Avunculate .” Unpublished ms. Silverman Kaja . “ Masochism and Male Subjectivity .” Camera Obscura 17 ( 1988 ): 31 - 66 . Smith Paul . “ Action Movie Hysteria, or Eastwood Bound .” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1 . 3 ( 1989 ): 88 - 107 . Sobchack...
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