"Feelings of sexual desire, attraction, and lust play an important role in human lives and in many human relationships. Pamela C. Regan and Ellen Berscheid have written an accessible, interdisciplinary book that reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire…
Accessibly written, this interdisciplinary book reviews theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the individual physical and mental factors that influence the experience of sexual desire (hormones, age, gender, beliefs, mood), the various partner characterist…
Covering the theory and research on the characteristics of sexual desire, the authors use findings from research on sexual and romantic attraction. The book also explores the individual physical and mental factors that influence sexual desire.
In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses - psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge …
"In Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern discourses--psychoanalysis and historicism. Ordinarily, these discourses only cross paths long enough for historicists to charge …
Desire after affect
by Clough, Patricia Ticineto, Angerer, Marie-Luise, Grindell, Nicholas
Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject. This desire is directed towards the real, which is defined as the generic core of the linguistic order. As a result of the focus on affect, the three terms - desire, the subject, the real - have been fundamentally shak…
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Desire After Affect offers a detailed analysis of the affective turn and its consequences for the humanities.