this project has evolved into two different projects:
'love diaries' and 'some sex tales'
Sunday, 20 June 2010
Thus
tel / thus
Endlessly required to define the loved object, and suffering from the uncertainties of this definition, the amorous subject dreams of a knowledge which would let him take the other as he is, thus no other, exonerated from any adjective.
Endlessly required to define the loved object, and suffering from the uncertainties of this definition, the amorous subject dreams of a knowledge which would let him take the other as he is, thus no other, exonerated from any adjective.
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
Flayed
écorché / flayed
The particular sensibility of the amorous subject, which renders him vulnerable, defenseless to the slightest injuries.
The particular sensibility of the amorous subject, which renders him vulnerable, defenseless to the slightest injuries.
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Ravishment
ravissement / ravishment
The supposedly initial episode (though it may be reconstructed after the fact) during which the amorous subject is "ravished" (captured and enchanted) by the image of the loved object (popular name: love at first sight; scholarly name: enamoration).
The supposedly initial episode (though it may be reconstructed after the fact) during which the amorous subject is "ravished" (captured and enchanted) by the image of the loved object (popular name: love at first sight; scholarly name: enamoration).
Sunday, 9 May 2010
Sobria Ebrietas
vouloir-saisir / will-to-possess
Realizing that the difficulties of the amorous relationship originate in his ceaseless desire to appropriate the loved being in one way or another, the subject decides to abandon henceforth all "will-to-possess" in his regard.
Realizing that the difficulties of the amorous relationship originate in his ceaseless desire to appropriate the loved being in one way or another, the subject decides to abandon henceforth all "will-to-possess" in his regard.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
Clouds
nuages / clouds
Meaning and employment of that darkening of mood which overtakes the subject under various circumstances.
Meaning and employment of that darkening of mood which overtakes the subject under various circumstances.
Monday, 26 April 2010
The Unknowable
inconnaissable / unknowable
Efforts of the amorous subject to understand and define the loved being "in itself," by some standard of character type, psychological or neurotic personality, independent of the particular data of the amorous relation.
Efforts of the amorous subject to understand and define the loved being "in itself," by some standard of character type, psychological or neurotic personality, independent of the particular data of the amorous relation.
Thursday, 8 April 2010
Gradiva
Gradiva / Gradiva
This name, borrowed from Jensen's book analyzed by Freud, designates the image of the loved being insofar as that being agrees to enter to some degree into the amorous subject's delirium in order to help him escape from it.
This name, borrowed from Jensen's book analyzed by Freud, designates the image of the loved being insofar as that being agrees to enter to some degree into the amorous subject's delirium in order to help him escape from it.
Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Aubade
réveil / waking
Various modes by which the amorous subject finds upon waking that he is once again besieged by the anxieties of his passion.
Various modes by which the amorous subject finds upon waking that he is once again besieged by the anxieties of his passion.
Saturday, 27 March 2010
Fade-out
jading / fade-out
Painful ordeal in which the loved being appears to withdraw from all contact, without such enigmatic indifference even being directed against the amorous subject or pronounced to the advantage of anyone else, world or rival.
Painful ordeal in which the loved being appears to withdraw from all contact, without such enigmatic indifference even being directed against the amorous subject or pronounced to the advantage of anyone else, world or rival.
Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Agony
angoisse / anxiety
The amorous subject, according to one contingency or another, feels swept away by the fear of a danger, an injury, an abandonment, a revulsion - a sentiment he expresses under the name anxiety.
The amorous subject, according to one contingency or another, feels swept away by the fear of a danger, an injury, an abandonment, a revulsion - a sentiment he expresses under the name anxiety.
Thursday, 18 March 2010
This can't go on
insupportable / unbearable
The sentiment of an accumulation of amorous sufferings explodes in this cry: "This can't go on . . ."
The sentiment of an accumulation of amorous sufferings explodes in this cry: "This can't go on . . ."
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Exiled from the Image-repertoire
exil / exile
Deciding to give up the amorous condition, the subject sadly discovers himself exiled from his Image-repertoire.
Deciding to give up the amorous condition, the subject sadly discovers himself exiled from his Image-repertoire.
Sunday, 7 March 2010
Regretted?
regretté / regretted
Imagining himself dead, the amorous subject sees the loved being's life continue as if nothing had happened.
Imagining himself dead, the amorous subject sees the loved being's life continue as if nothing had happened.
Wednesday, 3 March 2010
Saturday, 27 February 2010
"What is to be done?"
conduite / behavior
A deliberative figure: the amorous subject raises (generally) futile problems of behavior: faced with this or that alternative, what is to be done? How is he to act?
Friday, 19 February 2010
Images
image / image
In the amorous realm, the most painful wounds are inflicted more often by what one sees than by what one knows.
Sunday, 14 February 2010
Catastrophe
catastrophe / catastrophe
Violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.
Violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.
Sunday, 7 February 2010
"I want to understand"
comprendre / to understand
Suddenly perceiving the amorous episode as a knot of inexplicable reasons and impaired solutions, the subject exclaims: "I want to understand (what is happening to me)!"
Suddenly perceiving the amorous episode as a knot of inexplicable reasons and impaired solutions, the subject exclaims: "I want to understand (what is happening to me)!"
Saturday, 23 January 2010
Why?
pourquoi / why
Even as he obsessively asks himself why he is not loved, the amorous subject lives in the belief that the loved object does love him but does not tell him so.
Even as he obsessively asks himself why he is not loved, the amorous subject lives in the belief that the loved object does love him but does not tell him so.
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Ideas of Solution
issues / outcomes
Enticement of solutions, whatever they may be, which afford the amorous subject, despite their frequently catastrophic character, a temporary peace; hallucinatory manipulation of the possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
Enticement of solutions, whatever they may be, which afford the amorous subject, despite their frequently catastrophic character, a temporary peace; hallucinatory manipulation of the possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
Monday, 4 January 2010
Exuberance
dépense / expenditure
A figure by which the amorous subject both seeks and hesitates to place love in an economy of pure expenditure, of "total loss."
A figure by which the amorous subject both seeks and hesitates to place love in an economy of pure expenditure, of "total loss."
Wednesday, 16 December 2009
The Intractable
affirmation / affirmation
Against and in spite of everything, the subject affirms love as value.
Against and in spite of everything, the subject affirms love as value.
Saturday, 5 December 2009
The Love Letter
lettre / letter
This figure refers to the special dialectic of the love letter, both blank (encoded) and expressive (charged with longing to signify desire).
This figure refers to the special dialectic of the love letter, both blank (encoded) and expressive (charged with longing to signify desire).
Saturday, 28 November 2009
No Answer
mutisme / silence
The amorous subject suffers anxiety because the loved object replies scantily or not at all to his language (discourse or letters).
The amorous subject suffers anxiety because the loved object replies scantily or not at all to his language (discourse or letters).
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Waiting
attente / waiting
Tumult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being, subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, telephone calls, returns).
Tumult of anxiety provoked by waiting for the loved being, subject to trivial delays (rendezvous, letters, telephone calls, returns).
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