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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
... Culture . Cambridge, Mass : MIT P , 1991 . Žižek Slavoj . The Sublime Object of Ideology . London : Verso , 1989 . TREVOR HOPE Melancholic Modernity: The Hom(m)osexual Symptom and the Homosocial Corpse For Michael J. Current he work ofLuce Irigaray has provided an enormously powerful...
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Psychoanalysis without Symptoms
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 87–101.
Published: 01 May 2009
...Anne Anlin Cheng This article meditates on the possibility of thinking about both psychoanalysis and contemporary critical analysis without the drive toward symptomatic reading. It argues that the instrumental expectation placed on the diagnosis of symptoms (of illness and of ideology alike...
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Parasymptomatic Reading: Medical Kink, Care, and the Surface/Depth Debate
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differences (2023) 34 (2): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2023
.... Through the performances of Bob Flanagan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s 1882 novel Doctor Zay, the 1991 film Misery and its source novel, and Maria Beatty’s 2009 film Bandaged , sadomedicine is situated as an engagement with symptoms that delights in surfaces but that might also exacerbate symptoms, introduce...
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Gender Constitution and Reversible Potentiality: The Making of the Masculine Subject in Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 92–118.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... If Daphnis’s psychosomatic identification with feminine sexuality is understood as a symptom of male sexual development in pederastic culture, then the Freudian female Oedipus complex can be reimagined as descriptive of the boy’s progression out of sexual objectification and into the role of active sexual...
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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
... and emancipatory politics, as well as their own solidarity, is exemplified in the concept of the symptom. [email protected] © 2022 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 Thatcher’s political-ontological axiom implies that the sum of individuals...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 1–20.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of loyalty to Trump in the form of people not getting vaccinated, not taking precautions, often attacking those who did, and throwing themselves away by (simply) dying are collective examples of what Jacques Lacan called the passage à l’acte and are symptoms of a profound decay of political culture...
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Arendt on the Couch
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 93–105.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Bonnie Honig Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt starts and ends with its protagonist on the couch. Hannah Arendt’s intellectual objection to psychoanalysis notwithstanding, this framing invites us to consider the psychoanalytical symptoms Arendt’s own thinking is caught up in. The essay...
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The Drive, the Untreatable Quest of Desire
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Lucie Cantin From the moment Freud first came up against repetition and the resistance of the symptom in his clinical practice and was thus forced to acknowledge a beyond of the pleasure principle that acts within the subject, the unconscious could no longer be conceived as a site...
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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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Thinking Differently
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 178–193.
Published: 01 May 2010
..., 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...
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The Forgetting Dis-Ease: Making Time Matter
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differences (2012) 23 (3): 42–73.
Published: 01 December 2012
...; and that of Mrs. B, a woman who suffers from amnesia and wears a camera in the hope of leading a normal life in which she can share the past with loved ones. The author discusses how new recording technologies are both a symptom of, and a cure for, anxieties about time, arguing that prototypical recording...
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The Traversal of the Fantasy as an Opening to Humanity
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 198–219.
Published: 01 December 2022
... at Loudun . Trans. Smith Michael B. . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2000 . Freud Sigmund . Fragment of An Analysis of a Case of Hysteria . 1901 . The Standard Edition . Vol. 7 . 1955 . 1 – 122 . Freud Sigmund . Inhibitions, Symptoms, and Anxiety . 1926 . The Standard Edition...
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Death from Laughter, Female Hysteria, and Early Cinema
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 45–92.
Published: 01 December 2016
... such as these, evidently, revealed women’s laughter to be fatal. In contrast, hysterical symptoms were quintessentially erasable. The reversibility of hysterical symptoms represented an abiding fixation for clinical neurologists and psychologists. Lacking an organic cause to diagnose, clinicians sought to undo...
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Inviting Catastrophe: The Welcoming of the Act in Psychoanalysis
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 49–68.
Published: 01 December 2023
... that cannot pass through language and that is therefore either inscribed in the erogenous zones of the body (in the form of fixations or symptoms) or staged in the real through failed acts ( actes manqués ) or episodes of acting out ( passages à l’acte ) wherein the conscious intention of the actor...
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Black Transmission: Toward a Hieroglyph-Analysis
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 69–78.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., entrapped in an orbit of intellectual desire, is a thought experiment of an affirmative response: yes, blackness does, indeed, repeat and transfer its hieroglyph in various symbolic substitutions and undecipherable symptoms. We might call this repetition and transmission a black Pass , resembling...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
.... If the fundamental discovery supporting a psychoanalytic method is that hysterics “ suffer mainly from reminiscences ” (7)—and that the reason the past resurges in painful symptoms is that it has been repressed and rendered unconscious, translated into a psychical system about which even the analyst’s insights...
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Gut Feminism
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differences (2004) 15 (3): 66–94.
Published: 01 December 2004
... hysteria. He claimed that conversion hysteria is
the transformation of psychic confl ict into somatic symptoms—such as
paralysis, pain, numbness, or, most famously in the case of Dora, ner-
vous coughing.2 The dissociation of somatic...
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Lost and Never Found: The Queer Archive of Feelings and Its Historical Propriety
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differences (2013) 24 (3): 36–62.
Published: 01 December 2013
...), but why then all the
argumentation, putting in context, explaining, and excusing? Does that not
look more like a foreclosure of enjoyment in one’s symptoms than identifi-
cation with the same...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 1–33.
Published: 01 December 2010
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Reading with the Grain: A New World in Literary Criticism
Can literary criticism survive the decline of the symptom?
This essay will consider the question of what it might be to read literature
today, a question that, I will argue...
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Psychoanalysis and the Freudian Rupture
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 5–23.
Published: 01 September 2017
... in order to be confronted with this real. In this confrontation, the analyst discovers for himself that his own unconscious has responded to the constraint of the transference through the signifier of the dream, the letter of the symptom, or the object of the fantasy. The modality in which the analyst made...
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