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Therapeutic Arguments and Structures of Desire
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 46–66.
Published: 01 April 1990
... . Winkler John J. The Constraints of Desire: The Anthropology of Sex and Gender in Ancient Greece . New York : Routledge , 1990 . Therapeutic Arguments and Structures of Desire MARTHA NlSSBAl'\tl I begin with a passage from the ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus (fourth-third century Be), who...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 1–21.
Published: 01 May 2003
..., Georges. The Normal and the Pathological . Trans. Carolyn R. Fawcett and Robert S. Cohen. New York: Zone, 1989 . Deleuze, Gilles. “How Do We Recognize Structuralism?”Appendix. Trans. Melissa McMahon and Charles J. Stivale. The Two-Fold Thought of Deleuze and Guattari: Intersections and Animations...
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Figure 1 Detail from a draft essay on debt and structural adjustment transcribed in this selection of fragments. Source: Silvia Federici Papers, Feminist Theory Archives at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Courtesy of Silvia Federici.
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Reinhabiting the Body Politic: Habit and the Roots of the Human
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 73–102.
Published: 01 December 2009
.... Under Augustine's self-examining gaze, habit comes to be construed as the symptom of man's metaphysical “fallenness” into a state of “entanglement in the multitude”: an inhuman structure of ontological constriction at the heart of the human. By tracing the genealogy of sovereignty back to the early...
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Freud’s Australia
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 42–70.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Kathleen Frederickson While the nineteenth-century consolidation of the anthropological culture concept shifted ethnological interests away from the figure of the solitary “savage” to wider structures of communal governance, it nonetheless accommodated the eighteenth-century caricatures...
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Nigerian Writings (Fragments)
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 117–155.
Published: 01 December 2020
...Figure 1 Detail from a draft essay on debt and structural adjustment transcribed in this selection of fragments. Source: Silvia Federici Papers, Feminist Theory Archives at the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. Courtesy of Silvia Federici. ...
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Rot's Progress: Gastronomy according to Peter Greenaway
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 73–96.
Published: 01 December 2010
... and are in bad taste. Reading the phenomenologist Aurel Kolnai with the gastronome Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, this article explores how rot and decay, the negative of the aesthetic and gastronomic, function as a structural language in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
... change. This article examines three examples of social tie that are structured around the desire of the founder and the anxiety it induces: the interdiction of sacrifice and the worship of an absent God in the religion of Moses, the role of the transference in Freud's invention of psychoanalysis...
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Rethinking Sexual Difference and Kinship in Juliet Mitchell’s Psychoanalysis and Feminism
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 1–19.
Published: 01 September 2012
...Judith Butler Returning to Juliet Mitchell’s own rereading of her account of sexual difference, this article takes up the question of how structures of kinship—along with the laws of sexual difference that constitute them—are transmitted. According to Mitchell, the construction of sexual difference...
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Against the Period
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differences (2012) 23 (2): 136–164.
Published: 01 September 2012
... of Althusser’s own practice of theory (in its ambivalent relation to structuralism), it concludes, on the other, that no genuine reworking is possible of the historical horizon we all presuppose, apart from the revival of theory or one of its avatars or successors. As in Althusser’s example, theory’s task...
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Working the Digital Humanities: Uncovering Shadows between the Dark and the Light
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differences (2014) 25 (1): 1–25.
Published: 01 May 2014
...Wendy Hui Kyong Chun; Lisa Marie Rhody Situating digital humanities within larger changes to university funding and structures, Chun and Rhody complicate rhetoric surrounding “the digital” as the bright future of the humanities and higher education. Chun confronts a general euphoria surrounding...
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Keyword 7: Consent
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differences (2019) 30 (1): 148–156.
Published: 01 May 2019
..., always already shaped by (gendered, racialized, classed, sexual) power. This fiction of mutuality emphasizes the importance of the individual rather than structures of power, strengthening the logic of “he said, she said” in the aftermath of violence and once again leaving redress for harm largely out...
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After All: Traces of the Literary in Freud’s Moses and Monotheism (a Historical Novel)
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2020
... action ( Nachträglichkeit ), which structures the movement of repression and return in the individual psychology of Freud’s earlier work, is aggravated and intensified in this late modernist text. Now, it is an entire people (the Jews) and (Judeo-Christian) civilization founded upon the temporal...
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Literary Theory as Radical Historicism?
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 54–73.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of its perceived uniqueness, bringing about the demise of theoretical discourses aimed at determining that uniqueness. Exploring the tensions within Russian formalism and Prague structuralism that made possible the abandonment of the adherence to the doctrine of literary autonomy through specific uses...
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The Return to/of Theory
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 74–96.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Kamelia Spassova In his paper “The Return to Philology,” Paul de Man insists that philology and theory should not be in conflict, but should, rather, mutually enhance one another. This claim that the turn to theory is also a return to philology is explored in the context of the structure...
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The Promise of Oblivion: A Rhetorical Predicament in Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, and Beyond
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differences (2021) 32 (2): 94–121.
Published: 01 September 2021
... be promised for promises to be. Thus, what on the surface seems mutually exclusive turns out essentially entangled: promising premised on oblivion. In a coda invoking Heidegger and Blanchot, the structure of language itself is revealed to be promissory—and, as such, forgetful. [email protected]...
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Ontological Captivity: Toward a Black Radical Deconstruction of Being
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 85–113.
Published: 01 December 2021
... of the Black Radical tradition, the author argues for the importance of connecting the analysis of ontological difference with the political critique of concrete historical and material conditions that structurally link what it means to be human to overlapping and mutually reinforcing technologies of capture...
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Conundrums in the House of Wailing: Some Scenarios from Sudanese Widows
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 114–146.
Published: 01 December 2021
... illustrate the deep psychological and physical suffering that narrators experienced as they navigated the labyrinth of socially sanctioned practices in their communities. They also communicate lessons about deep structures of power and the blurred boundaries of religion and ritual. The narratives reveal...
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Yin and Yang in and Out of Equilibrium: Women’s Revenge and the Construction of Han (202 bce-220 ce) and Wei (220-265 ce) Culture
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differences (2013) 24 (2): 109–129.
Published: 01 September 2013
... and ethical practice; during the Han and Wei (220-65 ce ) dynasties, she plays an important role in the integration of yin and yang metaphysics, social morality, expressions of individual feeling, and legal order into a harmonious and cohesive aesthetic and ideological structure. This article examines...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
...—that has structured the psychoanalytic social bond from the origins of the talking cure. In putting the subject to grips with the disorienting effects of intersubjectivity, psychoanalysis constructs an ethical relation grounded in the illocutionary enactment of the subject’s negativity, sustaining a bond...
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