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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. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
2. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
3. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
4. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
5. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "I have an Other-ache"/Compassion, in relation to the other's suffering, the lover sees himself as a Mother, but an insufficient one-why?
2. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.
3. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?
4. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?
5. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?
6. In Atopos, how does the lover associate the other with innocence?
7. In "Adorable!," the author notes how the lover sees the other as a Whole; what does he mean?
8. Describe the two affirmations of love discussed at the end of the section entitled Intractable/Affirmation.
9. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?
10. In "When my finger accidentally. . ."/Contacts, what does the author imagine Werther's reaction to be when he accidentally touches Charlotte?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The other's absence is an important theme in the text. It surfaces in figures such as Absence, Anxiety, and Waiting. Discuss how the lover defines himself through absence:
- What does it mean that amorous absence functions in a single direction? (Absence, pg. 13)
- Who carries out the discourse of absence historically and what does this mean for the lover?
- What position does the other occupy in this dynamic?
- How does the other's absence affect the lover? (Anxiety, pg. 29)
- In what way is the absent other associated with truth? (Waiting, pg. 37)
Essay Topic 2
In the short paragraph that precedes the author's discussion of figures, he writes that "the lover is not to be reduced to a single symptomal subject."
- Explain what the author means when he says that the lover is not just a single individual.
- Why does the author choose to write with the first person pronoun ("I") and what does it show or signify?
- How does the lover speak and for whom is the discourse intended?
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?
This section contains 1,104 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |
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