This is the first part of a two-part post grappling with the concept of Jouissance and largely based on my reading of the Evan’s text cited below. The term jouissance, in the Lacanian universe, is a very slippery thing. I use the term in the Lacanian sense, and yet doing that is dangerous because Lacan’s … Continue Reading
We live in a culture that is constantly encouraging us to ‘enjoy’. We have been led to believe that there is no price to be paid for the freedoms we desire. No consequences to our indulgences. This serves a market-driven economy, but it traps us in a grayed out plane of existence with no peaks … Continue Reading
Definition-Eroticism-Draft
There is a very interesting article in the Atlantic, “The Ethics of Extreme Porn: Is Some Sex Wrong Even For Consenting Adults“. Being the Atlantic, although thorough, it also relates some very dogmatic and (to me) quite offensive responses. But the author has written a fairly well-reasoned piece. It is all in response to this … Continue Reading
I was honoured to be asked by co-editor Jean Hillabold to write a preface for this wonderful “collection of essays exploring the complex, ongoing navigation of public/private (and often queer) identities. This volume is organized under four broad themes around the notion of identity: the conscious creation of public identity, the defining (and, at times, … Continue Reading
I’m looking at what Judith Feher-Gurewich calls Lacan’s logic of perversion. There’s no judgement attached to the word, but it refers to more than what he considered ‘symptomatology’ – like sadism, voyeurism, exhibitionism, etc. These are the outward manifestations of an interior and alternate architecture of desire. “behind the ego’s back, at the level of … Continue Reading
If the mother’s desire cannot situate her child as a separate being whom she can admire, love, and desire, the child will instead encounter the mother’s jouissance. 1 Mother, see what the bastard fucker who seeded you full of his rage has done to me? Where are your tears? Where the handfuls of hair torn … Continue Reading
The following is the draft version of my paper on a proposal for writing exercises to help integrate, reflect, appropriate, translate critical, cultural, gender and/or literary theory into their creative writing practice. It is, by necessity, semi-formal paper, so if you’re not a fan of pseudo academic writing, just skip down to the heading “The … Continue Reading
The arrivals hall at Heathrow looks like a badly provisioned shopping mall. A hundred branded grottoes to minor commercial gods. Has anyone standing around the chrome barriers waiting for arriving passengers ever bothered to visit any of them? As she waits, she tamps her anxiety down with objective musings on consumer behavior. She, anecdotally, has … Continue Reading
One of the themes I plan on exploring in the creative portion of my thesis is the eroticism of the virtual interaction. Marcus Speh pointed out (on a post I can no longer find on his blog) that it seems that ‘real’ contemporary writers tend to present all fictional interactions as face to face, even … Continue Reading
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