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.
In his new collection of essays, Occasional Desire, David Lazar meditates on random violence and vanished phone booths, on the excessive relationship to jewelry that links Kobe Bryant and Elizabeth Taylor, on Hitchcock, Francis Bacon, and M.F.K. Fisher. He explores, in his conce…
by ebrary, Inc, Orbach, Susie, Petrucelli, Jean
A contemporary, interdisciplinary exploration of one of psychoanalysis's most foundational and fascinating areas of investigation. This anthology explores the vicissitudes and varieties of desire, its public and private, normative and transgressive, its light and dark expression…
1. The myth of mental illness -- 2. That discreet object of desire -- 3. Ressentiment : an existential paradigm for symptom formation -- 4. Deciphering psychopathology -- 5. What to make of an incidence of incomprehensible madness (or a clinical case not so easy to diagnose) -- …
