Lucky Breaks and Funny Coincidences: From the Tragedy of Desire to the Messianic Psychoanalysis of Love
This essay explores Jacques Lacan’s theory of desire as functioning according to the logic of tragedy and compares it with Alenka Zupančič’s concept of love as comedy, demonstrating however that the latter remains too caught up in the Lacanian worldview to truly capture the active side of love. The...
| Published in: | Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Warsaw
2024-04-01
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| Online Access: | https://eidos.uw.edu.pl/lucky-breaks-and-funny-coincidences/ |