Desire/Love

by Berlant, Lauren Gail

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Full title :Desire/Love / Lauren Berlant.

Summary

"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories -- especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story about what a person is and how her history should be read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. In these domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of the story of love. In this small theoretical novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love and desire in separate entries. In the first entry, Desire mainly describes the feeling one person has for something else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of attachment, and tells briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives. Whether viewed psychoanalytically, institutionally, or ideologically, love is deemed always an outcome of fantasy. Without fantasy, there would be no love. Desire/Love takes us on a tour of all of the things that sentence might mean.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Project Muse
Place of Publication:Baltimore, Maryland
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020

Notes

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (127 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780615686875, 0615686877
oclc:on1176455080
LC Classification:B105.D44
Dewey Decimal:128.46

Preface : dear reader -- Desire -- Psychoanalysis and the formalism of desire -- Psychoanalysis, sex and revolution -- Love -- Fantasy -- Desire, narrative, commodity, therapy.