A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

2. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

5. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the lover's attitude towards choice in "What is to be done?"/Behavior?

2. In Laetitia/To Circumscribe, what are two pleasures the narrator dreams of, and which one does he aspire to.

3. Describe the effect that the lover hope to achieve by adopting ascetic behavior.

4. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.

5. Discuss the function of the dark glasses in Dark Glasses/To Hide.

6. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?

7. What is the ascetic process that the lover goes through in the section entitled To Be Ascetic/Askesis?

8. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?

9. In Connivance, what position does the other (the object of desire) occupy in the lover's conversation with his rival?

10. In Atopos, how does the lover associate the other with innocence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

On the first page of the book, the author claims that the lover's discourse functions as an affirmation. He discusses this affirmation again in Affirmation (pg. 22), Alone (p. 210) and Signs (p. 214).

- What is the status of love and of the lover's discourse in society?

- What is it defining itself against and why? Is it excluded? How?

- Why is love classified as "intractable"?

Essay Topic 2

In Obscene, the author argues that modern views make love's sentimentality obscene, therefore, the lover's refusal to abandon sentiment becomes a transgression.

- What are the negative views of sentiment? Of the lover?

- Why is the lover's sentimentality obscene? Provide examples.

Essay Topic 3

In I-Love-You, the author claims that this utterance is on the side of expenditure (pg. 154.) Likewise, he sees the lover as a figure of expenditure (Expenditure, pg. 84.)

- Define the word "expenditure."

- Discuss I-Love-You and the lover's relation to expenditure.

- What is the result of excessive expenditure for the lover?

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