Desire/Love
Desire/Love "There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by…
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Desire/Love
"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. 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.
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 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.