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Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Bruno Penteado Abstract Recent developments in literary studies that can be grouped under the umbrella term postcritique purport to restore, in our disciplinary practices, attention to affect, pleasure, and attachment, which postcritics believe the critical tradition has silenced and neglected...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 153–180.
Published: 01 June 2010
...Jacques Lezra Copyright © 2010 Qui Parle 2010 The Pleasures of Infanticide
jacques lezra
What is this,
That rises like the issue of a King,
And wears upon his baby-brow the round
And top of sovereignty?
Macbeth, 4.1.85–88
A child is being beaten. I overhear...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 101–142.
Published: 01 June 2017
... the figure of the urban stranger and passerby to argue for an aesthetics and ethics of social anonymity that does not rely on or demand identification and that thereby remains open to the risk, surprise, and pleasure of shared existence. In doing so, I theorize intimacy as that which remains unnameable...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 151–182.
Published: 01 December 2012
... of genesis
myth, he assigns hate a fundamental role.
The fi rst phase of Freud’s myth—like that of Plato’s myth of the
androgyne, which Freud himself will recall explicitly in Beyond
the Pleasure Principle—is one of indifference, in which the sub-
ject is a closed One, indifferent to the external...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2009) 17 (2): 123–147.
Published: 01 December 2009
... pleasure and jouissance should
be fully asserted here: while it is clear that the dialectical reversals
of pleasure fail to capture the traumatic cases evoked by Malabou,
the intrusion of a numbing jouissance is definitely relevant here. In
many of the cases reported by Oliver Sacks in his...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2022) 31 (1): 67–98.
Published: 01 June 2022
... Rejects, May 8 , 2020 . filmschoolrejects.com/mercedes-mccambridge-the-exorcist . Taylor Leila . Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul . New York : Repeater , 2019 . Twitchell James B. Dreadful Pleasures: An Anatomy of Modern Horror . New York : Oxford University...
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 71–89.
Published: 01 December 2012
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sination as seen through these media spectacles? How does the
intensity of the spectacle and the violence/pleasure nexus of that
Berlant and Greenwald: Conversation with Lauren Berlant 73
intensity provide a situation for the body politic that requires
scrounging around for genres...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 1–18.
Published: 01 December 2003
... of methodical recollection that knows no
end in earthly life and that never reaches a final presence, the image
of the passion of God evoked in the soul becomes the foundation of
a love that extends beyond the image — ever renewed in contem-
plative pleasure — and that at the same time bears the marks...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 433–455.
Published: 01 December 2018
... who gives me what I want but only whether they give it to me or not, instrumental relationships—Aristotle is very clear about this—end the very moment they can no longer provide the pleasure or utility that sustained them. That does not prevent us from trying, often enough, to convince ourselves...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 71–83.
Published: 01 June 2012
... into the soul, compromising rational
harmony (Republic 411a). Less obsessed with the danger of acous-
tic pleasures, Aristotle discourses on pho¯ne¯ in a famous passage in
the Poetics (1456b 20–57 a 30), where he regards sound (pho¯ne¯) as
indivisible in each of its discrete elements—that is, the letters...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 189–210.
Published: 01 June 2019
..., of the Real, his or her Real. Thus the demand of the ethical act is to confront those fragments of the Real that remain inaccessible to conscious deliberation because their initial contact had exposed the subject to a certain unbearable pain (or, perhaps, to a surplus of pleasure that had to be directed...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 June 2015
... depend on the sov-
ereign’s “Will and Pleasure.”3 The right was the sovereign’s to give,
and the sovereign’s to take away. Almost a century later, in Calder
v. B.C., the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Aboriginal rights
could be extinguished whenever the “sovereign authority” chose...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 235–261.
Published: 01 June 2012
... acknowledged pleasure taken in a soprano’s
“piercing” high notes—din, entrance, spear, cut, ravishment. I like
to be invaded abstractly (a simple melody from Gounod’s Faust
provokes in me a signature spasm that I call masochistic—the mel-
ody’s sentimentality stabs me, because I can...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 85–105.
Published: 01 June 2012
... to achieve a new unity of mind and body
constituted through the fi xity of representation or, as Tomlinson
puts it, “habituation.”
A similar account of Cartesianism’s relationship with early
modern aurality is offered by Georgia Cowart in The Triumph of
Pleasure: Louis XIV and the Politics...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 21 (2): 61–68.
Published: 01 December 2013
... that, as he had earlier recalled, Freud offers in
Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in which a primitive organism sac-
rifi ces part of itself in order to create a protective shield against
excessive stimuli: “By its death,” Freud writes, “the outer layer [of
the organism] has saved all...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 55–87.
Published: 01 December 2015
... himself and oth-
ers foremost as human capital.2 If the lived experience of homo
economicus turns on consumption, enterprise, brand creation, self-
optimization, effi ciency, aggressive speculation, and, ironically,
amid the never ending workday, the maximization of individual-
ized pleasure, it fi...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2010) 19 (1): 37–63.
Published: 01 June 2010
... and Juvescence
What follows should focus, ideally, on Freud’s Beyond the Plea-
sure Principle, seen as read and partially misinterpreted both by
Max Schur’s famous biography, Freud: Living and Dying,14 and by
Jacques Derrida in his long chapter on Beyond the Pleasure Princi-
ple...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 151–184.
Published: 01 June 2012
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low the viewer to become absorbed in visual pleasure and desire,
and also to allow the poser the pleasure of inhabiting the object
position. In psychoanalytic theory, which informs many theories
of visual culture, the phallus is the signifi er par excellence for de-
sire...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 45–74.
Published: 01 December 2016
... poses a challenge to what I have
elsewhere characterized as the contemporary “liberal” position that
translates sex into the terms of a contractual exchange and that views
pleasure as an individual right akin to the right to vote or to bear
arms.11 Such a framework allows us...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (1): 137–166.
Published: 01 June 2019
... into an afterthought: Sosias assures Alcmene (and himself) that it will take Amphitryon, who is busy with the troops, quite some time to come home. Against the backdrop of a husband who puts his military duties above his conjugal pleasures, Sosias can play the lover and carve out time for his own tête-à-tête...
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