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"There is nothing more alienating than having your pleasures disputed by someone with a theory," writes Lauren Berlant. 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. At the same time, other modes of explanation have been offered by popular and mass culture. 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. 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 briefly the history of their importance in critical theory and practice. The second entry, on Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving away from the parent-child structure so central to psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of context, environment, and history. The entry on Love describes some workings of romance across personal life and commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives.

This is the first book to explore sexualities from a geographical perspective. The nature of place and notions of space are of increasing centrality to cultural and social theory. Mapping Desire presents the rich and diverse world of contemporary sexuality, exploring how the heterosexual body has been appropriated and resisted on the individual, community and city scales. The geographies presented here range across Europe, America, Australasia, Africa, the Pacific and the imaginary, cutting across city and country and analysing the positions of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals. T

Preface -- 1. Life-Changing Accident -- 2. Loss and Change -- 3. Life-Changing Wager -- 4. New York: City of Many Sirens -- 5. 'Death Is In My Sight Today" - 1990-1 -- 6. On Loss -- 7. Sydney, 1988 -- 8. Reckonings -- 9. Oblivion and Touch (1991) -- Index.

Cover -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- SECTION I The Capitalist Paradox: Expanding and Contracting Pleasures -- Sex and Society: A Research Note from Social History and Anthropology -- "Charity Girls" and City Pleasures: Historical Notes on Working-Class Sexuality, 1880-1920 -- Marching to a Different Drummer: Lesbian and Gay GIs in World War II -- Capitalism and Gay Identity -- SECTION II Sexual Revolutions -- Family, Sexual Morality, and Popular Movements in Turn-of-the-Century America -- Feminism, Men, and Modern Love: Greenwich Village, 1900-1925 -- The New Woman and the Rationalization of Sexuality in Weimar Germany -- SECTION Ill The Institution of Heterosexuality -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence -- Russian Working Women: Sexuality in Bonding Patterns and the Politics of Daily Life -- they're always curious -- The Afro-American Female: The Historical Context of the Construction of Sexual Identity Rennie Simson -- I Just Came Out Pregnant -- Mass Market Romance: Pornography for Women Is Different -- Issues and Answers -- Garden Paths, Descents -- SECTION IV Domination, Submission, and the Unconscious -- Master and Slave: The Fantasy of Erotic Domination -- Outside the Operating Room of the Sex-Change Doctor -- Movie -- Street Dream #1 -- Is the Gaze Male? -- "The Mind That Burns in Each Body": Women, Rape, and Racial Violence -- Hearts of Darkness -- SECTION V On Sexual Openness -- Gender Systems, Ideology, and Sex Research -- The Teacher -- What We're Rollin Around in Bed With: Sexual Silences in Feminism -- In the Morning -- Bestiary -- A Story of a Girl and Her Dog -- SECTION VI Current Controversies -- Male Vice and Female Virtue: Feminism and the Politics of Prostitution in Nineteenth-Century Britain -- The New Feminism of Yin and Yang.

"What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than a social construction, unsupported in biological terms and upheld for the simple reason that we continue to believe in its reality. Deploying concepts from the sociology of knowledge, religion, social memory, and psychoanalysis, the authors consider the conditions that contribute to this persistence of belief and suggest ways in which the idea of race can free itself from outdated nineteenth-century notions of biological essentialism. By conceiving of race as something that is simultaneously real and unreal, this study generates a new conceptualization that will be required reading for scholars in this field."--Jacket

This book examines the human desire for God through the lens of Bernard Lonergan's 'concrete subjectivity.' With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthazar, Jean-Luc Marion, Rene Girard, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Pope France, among others. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in in both the natural and suspernatural

List of contributors -- Introduction / Simon Morgan Wortham and Chiara Alfano -- Chapter 1 Ashes to Ashes: Derrida's Holocaust / Gil Anidjar -- Chapter 2 'There shall be no mourning' / Simon Morgan Wortham -- Chapter 3 Transference Love in the Age of 'Isms' / Herman Rapaport -- Chapter 4 Kindling; or, Suicide by Fire / Elissa Marder -- Chapter 5 Fort Spa: In at the Deep End with Derrida and Ferenczi / Lynn Turner -- Chapter 6 Neurosciences: The Obverse Side of Jacques Derrida's 'Freud and the Scene of Writing' / Céline Surprenant -- Chapter 7 The Desire for Survival? / Kas Saghafi -- Chapter 8 The King is Dead! Long Live the King! / Chiara Alfano.

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Four interpretations of desireless action -- chapter 2 Desireless action in the Yogasu¯tra -- chapter 3 The desire for Moks.a -- chapter 4 Unselfish desires -- chapter 5 Desireless action in the Manusmr. ti -- chapter 6 Desireless action in the Nya¯yasu¯tra and Brahmasiddhi -- chapter 7 A defense of desireless action.