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Published: 01 December 2021
Figure 5 Frame from the opening torture scene of The Battle of Algiers (1966) featuring the gégène in the bottom left-hand corner
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Psychoanalysis of the Excommunicated
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
... . New York : Rout-ledge , 2009 . death drive homelessness Honey Oberoi Vahali Tibetan refugee torture trauma A few months after the World Health Organization declared the global coronavirus outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, I wrote to the mental health ngos and initiatives I...
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Reality Check: Image Affects and Cultural Memory
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differences (2006) 17 (1): 20–46.
Published: 01 May 2006
.../article_33.html >. Sontag, Susan. “Regarding the Torture of Others.” New York Times Magazine 23 May 2004. < http://donswaim.com/nytimes.sontag.html >. ____. Regarding the Pain of Others . New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003 . Wright, Robert. “Rice Talks, the Headlines Scream...
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Jim Miller's Passions
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differences (1993) 5 (2): 140–149.
Published: 01 July 1993
... to structure the thesis of his book. In Miller's allegation, Michel Foucault's ostensible erotic passion - pleasures taken or imagined in suicide, violence, and torture - has as its political cognates fascism, terrorism, Auschwitz, and 144 Jim Miller's Passions Islamic fundamentalism, and as its philosophical...
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Policing (as) the Paradigmatic Scene of Rape
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differences (2021) 32 (3): 25–52.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Figure 5 Frame from the opening torture scene of The Battle of Algiers (1966) featuring the gégène in the bottom left-hand corner ...
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The Sadomasochist in the Closet: White Masculinity and the Culture of Victimization
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 127–152.
Published: 01 July 1996
..., as if in compensation for his perpetually misplaced virility. Relentlessly performing this contradiction, the white male as victim flirts recklessly with disaster, putting himself through the most trying ordeals, torturing himself to prove his masculinity, and so becomes the paradigm of that peculiar condition Freud...
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Framing Psychoanalysis in the Context of the World
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 90–109.
Published: 01 December 2022
... shaped by the historical intensification of covert surveillance, detention, torture, disappearance, and social pressure to report “suspicious” activity to the police, turning family, friends, and neighbors into spies. Idealizations of clinical space as a sanctuary for confidential free association were...
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Arendt on the Couch
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differences (2015) 26 (2): 93–105.
Published: 01 September 2015
... was not Arendt’s torturer, but still, she knew what he had done, and whether she knew it or not, she expected someone grander. This is not to say she was right that he was just a cliché-ridden bureaucrat. Nor is it to say the opposite, that she was wrong, that he was really a monster and that she was fooled...
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Aestheticism
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 14–19.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., rounding up attractive teenaged boys and girls in order to select the most beautiful and therefore most suitable participants in what will be a degrading and eventually deadly piece of performance art. The youths are kept in a large modernist villa, where their bodies are enjoyed, humiliated, and tortured...
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Reading, Writing, and Masochism: The Arts of Becoming
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differences (2012) 23 (1): 131–150.
Published: 01 May 2012
... of youthful torture at the hands of a Slavic
aristocrat (a cold, cruel mistress), becomes emblematic not only of ethnic
resistance but also of the ideology behind masochism: “In the language of
Sacher-Masoch’s folklore, history, politics...
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Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Anthropology
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 9–35.
Published: 01 December 2009
... to the experience
of torture and therefore to a threshold of intensity and a “refinement” of
the experience of suffering that drive the tortured to beg for death as a
deliverance. But the fact that life can become worse than death can also...
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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
... what has been enacted, as a result of its failure to be represented, must find a way to be signified or spoken. A few years before, in the case of the Rat Man, Freud had come up against this acting in the transference, at the moment when the patient, asked to recount the rat torture that was haunting...
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Technoasceticism and Authorial Death in Sade, Kafka, Barthes, and Foucault
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differences (1996) 8 (3): 79–127.
Published: 01 November 1996
... a torture" (106) by raising torture to a general principle. For Nietzsche, asceticism tops the list of "what has 82 Technoasceticism and Authorial Death been ruined by the Church's misuse of it" (Will 483).2 Ruined, but apparently not entirely, for asceticism retains something valuable, not least of which...
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2002: A Reading Appeal
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differences (2019) 30 (3): 34–62.
Published: 01 December 2019
... to punish the Muslim woman in the most outrageously immoral ways. The other was gleefully sacrificed to the somber demands of justice. In most cases, it was not enough to rape the women. They were hacked, quartered, mutilated, tortured, burned alive, and it was still not gratifying. Their bodies were...
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Sadism
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differences (2023) 34 (1): 217–227.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... If it is possible to think that the husband is torturing an innocent A . . . with his suspicions and his spying, an even more cunningly sadistic narrator can be inferred from the frantic helplessness which we recognize as our own ‘ideal’ response to the floating pseudo-point of view of La Jalousie ” ( Balzac...
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The Democratic Body: Prostitution and Citizenship in Classical Athens
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differences (1990) 2 (1): 1–28.
Published: 01 April 1990
... . Carey C. “ A Note on Torture in Athenian Homicide Cases .” Historia 37 ( 1988 ): 241 - 45 . Cohen David . “ The Athenian Law of Adultery .” Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquité 5rd ser. 31 ( 1984 ): 147 - 65 . Cohen David . “ A Note on Aristophanes...
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Unbound: The Speculative Mythology of the Death Drive
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., masochism aims at a specific “freezing” or suspension of the “pendulum swing” between two poles, identified with two different modes of sensuality: on one side, the hedonistic ideal of the Greek woman or Aphrodite, who dedicates herself solely to the pursuit of pleasure, and, on the other, the tortures...
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Female Peristalsis
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differences (2002) 13 (2): 57–89.
Published: 01 September 2002
... could not be too close to the person or she suffered
such tortures that she had to leave the table in the midst of her
breakfast. (106)
While the loaves are baking in the warmed-up oven, Louise sets in motion...
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Unheimlichkeit in Kinderheim and Stammheim: Memories of Baader-Meinhof
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differences (2018) 29 (1): 102–133.
Published: 01 May 2018
..., whom the state accused of serving as go-betweens for the raf leaders in prison and the second generation on the outside, while the prisoners accused the German state of torture and human rights violations. Offensive 77 ( raf actions committed between April 7 and October 18, 1977, intended to result...
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“An Especially Peculiar Undertaking”: Alice Notley's Epic
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differences (2001) 12 (2): 86–97.
Published: 01 September 2001
...PAGE DUBOIS 2001 page dubois is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, San Diego and the author of Sappho Is Burning (University of Chicago Press, 1995), Torture and Truth (Routledge, 1991 ), Sowing the Body: Psychoanalysis and Ancient...
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