Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
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The Verso Copy of Read My Desire by Joan Slavol
Roxanne Jones' book Read My Desire was out of print for years. Now it's back in print because of Verso, which is re-issuing the book. On page 115 she explains how pleasure can be retroactively posited as cause of a subject's desire. "The simultaneous affirmation and denial is what splits the subject of the fantasy"
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