Structures of Love, The

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List of Illustrations

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pp. vii-

Acknowledgments

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pp. ix-

An earlier version of chapter 3 was published as “Passing into the Universal: Fanon, Sartre and the Colonial Dialectic,” Paragraph: Journal of Modern Critical Theory 27, no. 3 (2004): 49–67; reprinted with permission of Edinburgh...

Preface

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pp. xi-xii

The premise of this book is that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe and can sabotage our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. I aim to demonstrate that transference theory, derived from Freudian clinical experience, allows the critic...

I. The Refusal of Love

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pp. 1-51

It’s not too much to claim that the entire project of psychoanalysis was set in motion by Freud’s remarkable discovery at the outset of his investigations that the patient never fails to fall in love during treatment. Baptizing this phenomenon transference love, Freud argues that such a love cannot...

II. Socrates, Analyst

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pp. 53-89

Lacan bases his reading of Plato’s Symposium dialogue on the premise that the text pivots around what he calls “the first analytic transference” on record.¹ This chapter’s relation to the preceding one is primarily illustrative: for the most part it treads the same theoretical ground, but through the lens of a radically different, decidedly pre-Freudian context. This...

III. Like a Pack of Rats

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pp. 91-126

The editors of an important UK-published essay collection on Frantz Fanon, that paradigmatic theorist of colonial race relations and anticolonial struggle, identify five stages in the reception of his work over the half-century since its appearance.¹ There was first a period of direct and pragmatic application...

IV. Loving the Terrorist

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pp. 127-157

During a two-year period beginning in October 1970, at the invitation of Mahmoud el Hamchari, the Paris-based PLO leader whose 1972 assassination at the hands of the Israeli secret service Steven Spielberg depicts in his 2005 film...

V. For the Love of Cinema

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pp. 159-191

Much of the lingering ambiguity surrounding Christian Metz’s influential, though now decidedly out of fashion, psychoanalytically inflected work can be traced to his question-begging coupling of the terms “imaginary” and “signifier.” To open this chapter...

VI. Naked Love

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pp. 193-228

Notes

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pp. 229-241

Index

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pp. 243-246

Back Cover

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