(Per)versions of love and hate
In (Per)Versions of Love and Hate, Renata Salecl explores the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through investigation of phenomena as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens' song, Ceausescu's Romania, and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. For Salecl - who questions the legitimacy of the …
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- Full title :(Per)versions of love and hate / Renata Salecl.
Summary
In (Per)Versions of Love and Hate, Renata Salecl explores the disturbing and complex relationships between love and hate, violence and admiration, libidinal and destructive drives, through investigation of phenomena as diverse as the novels The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day, classic Hollywood melodramas, the Sirens' song, Ceausescu's Romania, and the Russian performance artist Oleg Kulik, who acts like a dog and bites his audience. For Salecl - who questions the legitimacy of the calls for 'tolerance and respect' by multiculturalists - practices such as body multilation are symptoms of the radical change that has affected subjectivity in contemporary society.
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- Publication Date:©1998.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Verso
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:vi, 184 pages : : illustrations ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1859848397, 9781859848395, 1859842364, 9781859842362
- oclc:ocm39875112
- LC Classification:BD436
- Dewey Decimal:302.3
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Eternity to Contradiction -- "I can't love you unless I give you up": The Remains of the day, or, love as prohibition. The Age of innocence, or, the ethics of romantic love. The Big other in love. "Never, will I stoop to wanting anything else" -- Love between desire and drive: Rhadsody, or, love as narcissism. The Seventh veil, or, superego in love. Love and desire. From desire to drive. Of male and female geniuses -- The silence of feminine Jouissance: The Other's desire, the other's jouissance. How do the sirens enjoy? Homer with Kafka -- For the love of the nation: Ceauşescu's Disneyland: Identity and institution. The Nostalgia of memory. The State as a work of art. The Mall of Romania -- Love me, love my dog: psychoanalysis and the animal/human divide. Of Dogs and men. Pavlov with Freud. Eating nothingness -- See no evil, speak no evil: hate speech and human rights: The Violence of words. The Big other and the pain of the victim. The Remainder. The Violence of cultural differences. Are there different universals? -- Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art: Initiation and individualization. The Impotence of authority. What lies behind imaginary simul…
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