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differences (2017) 28 (2): 86–115.
Published: 01 September 2017
... of the expected penis. As Freud himself suggests in his account of the “three mothers,” the mother (and more broadly the feminine) has always served as a figuration of the drive in its unbounded quality ( “Theme” 299–300 ). In offering the maternal phallus as a figuration of the death drive, therefore...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 220–241.
Published: 01 December 2022
... act as a possible path for the unbound drive upon traversing castration. It argues that the Pass is, specifically, a transindividual act of solidarity with desire that extends its ethics and efficacy beyond both the institutional frameworks of psychoanalysis and the control of cultures...
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differences (2020) 31 (2): 58–85.
Published: 01 September 2020
... have been with these two works amid the more than 1,600 books in his library. 11 In “Unbound” McNulty rereads the Freudian death drive via Gilles Deleuze in terms of the logic of the fetish. Worringer’s understanding of abstract works as the materialization of a transcendental ideal is therefore...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 1–4.
Published: 01 September 2017
... is unbound , having no object or aim and thus no limit (including death itself)—whence the interminable character of repetition compulsion and the unlimited return of trauma. Against the energetic metaphor that is so often used to describe it, however, Freud reminds us that the death drive has no materiality...
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differences (2017) 28 (2): 24–45.
Published: 01 September 2017
... the free drive, or what Freud calls the unbound drive, produce? What does “that” produce? And what characterizes the act to which it gives rise? What would allow us to recognize it as a free act, born by the desire for something else, within a quest that transcends the ego and everything culture proposes...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 1–32.
Published: 01 December 2022
... this creativity the “plastic mode of work” (228), and she turns to the British artist Andy Goldsworthy for an extended illustration of how aesthetic acts—particularly those that involve the artist’s body in practices of documentation and repetition—can provide a path for the unbound drive. Goldsworthy’s ephemeral...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
... can be revised and expanded by including the vocabulary and symptomatology of the sufferance of exile and homelessness by displaced Tibetans. ankhi.mukherjee@wadham.ox.ac.uk © 2022 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 2022 death drive homelessness...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 51–71.
Published: 01 December 2022
... being its normative framings, biology and anatomy are constantly subverted by the sexual drive. Consequently, sexuality is never organized around a stable and univocal relation between two presumably “natural sexes.” For further discussion, see, notably, Zupančič (5–12) , and regarding Freud’s disputed...
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differences (2018) 29 (3): 33–57.
Published: 01 December 2018
... whose magnitude can be gauged from the subject’s massive and fearful response to it. The subject’s struggle to secure a grounded sense of being and a distinct sense of self and form in this postpartum world unfolds as a struggle against the real of undifferentiated, unbounded, formless flux. This real...
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differences (2014) 25 (2): 62–100.
Published: 01 September 2014
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For Bersani, sexuality becomes a privileged experience of being’s centripetal
drive. Yet, when he insists on “the inherently solipsistic nature of sexual-
ity” (Culture 37), he is not exactly contradicting the perhaps more familiar...
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differences (2016) 27 (3): 93–105.
Published: 01 December 2016
... for disagreement, an edge to be worked. This ethics will not lead us toward negative theology or queer negativity: it is not an ethics of negation. Despite the appeal of their breathtaking provocations, ethical negativists (queer or not!) are propelled by the same engine that drives the dialectic: the act...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 May 2003
... . Berkeley:U of California P, 2000 . ____. “History, Pornography, and the Social Body.” Surrealism: Desire Unbound . Exhibition Catalogue. London: Tate, 2001 . 227 -44. Doneson, Judith. The Holocaust in American Film . Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1987 . Dorosz, Jadwiga. “Le problème...
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differences (2017) 28 (1): 124–173.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., however, that nothing comprises the pulsion of jouissance, the insistence of the drive, and the uncognizable pressure of what conduces to no meaning. After exploring this nothing through Paul de Man’s engagement with Blaise Pascal’s account of the zero, this essay reads Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 146–173.
Published: 01 July 1994
... lies. Moreover, with its affective adjuncts it sops up any affective spillage-unbound energy that might frame itself as anxiety or worse - in stylized lament and purpose. Recognition by its very "failure" marks the limit of the human subject's possible acknowledgment of the Thing, das Ding. Lacan's...
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differences (2010) 21 (1): 1–18.
Published: 01 May 2010
... and Lacan against the grain to mount
a critique of patriarchy, the phallic symbolic order, and the discursive
sex-power axis. They stamped the period with a brilliant lexicon: chôra
(unbounded semiosis), jouissance, fluid...
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differences (2021) 32 (1): 126–149.
Published: 01 May 2021
... and migrated to the United States in the 1970s. François Cusset, who has studied the process of this migration, has written persuasively about “French Theory” (to quote the title of his book published in France in 2003, in which the words French Theory , in English in the French original, drive home his point...
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differences (2009) 20 (1): 1–39.
Published: 01 May 2009
...: it is not sustained by identification with something “outside” the
subject that would allow it to repress the drives or facilitate its refusal to
know anything about the unconscious. When Lacan offers as a formula-
tion of the ethics...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 110–140.
Published: 01 December 2022
..., it might be under the sway of a powerful unconscious fantasy or drive coming from the patient. The question is, then, how the analyst acceded to the wish, mismanaging the transference, though it is understood to be something else altogether when the analyst initiates impermissible contact rather than...
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differences (1996) 8 (2): 1–22.
Published: 01 July 1996
...). In literature, stupidity occurs as a theme, a genre, a historybut it is by no means identifiable according to secure or established determinations. Henry James's Washington Square leaves it undecidable whether Catherine's unbounded loyalty to her lover ought to be viewed as stupid or sublime. Stupidity offers...
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differences (2010) 21 (3): 53–72.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of Romanticism (associated with the
sexual, and what threatens the structure of the patriarchal family—the
deranged, the unbounded, etc3 Gamer’s approach is more discursively
mediated. Limiting his use of the term Romantic to mean “romantic...
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