Title: (Per)versions of love and hate /
Authors: Salecl, Renata, 1962-
Publisher: Verso,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Love; Hate; Love-hate relationships.; Love in literature; Love in motion pictures.
Contents: Introduction: From Eternity to Contradiction -- "I can't love you unless I give you up": The Remains of the day, or, love as prohibition. The Age of innocence, or, the ethics of romantic love. The Big other in love. "Never, will I stoop to wanting anything else" -- Love between desire and drive: Rhadsody, or, love as narcissism. The Seventh veil, or, superego in love. Love and desire. From desire to drive. Of male and female geniuses -- The silence of feminine Jouissance: The Other's desire, the other's jouissance. How do the sirens enjoy? Homer with Kafka -- For the love of the nation: Ceauşescu's Disneyland: Identity and institution. The Nostalgia of memory. The State as a work of art. The Mall of Romania -- Love me, love my dog: psychoanalysis and the animal/human divide. Of Dogs and men. Pavlov with Freud. Eating nothingness -- See no evil, speak no evil: hate speech and human rights: The Violence of words. The Big other and the pain of the victim. The Remainder. The Violence of cultural differences. Are there different universals? -- Cut in the body: from clitoridectomy to body art: Initiation and individualization. The Impotence of authority. What lies behind imaginary simulacra? -- Conclusion: "This says nothing."