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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. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

2. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

3. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

5. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. In "When my finger accidentally. . ."/Contacts, what does the author imagine Werther's reaction to be when he accidentally touches Charlotte?

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

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

7. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.

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

9. In "Adorable!," the author notes how the lover sees the other as a Whole; what does he mean?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The lover goes through a process of identification in Habiliment (pg. 126) and Identification (pg. 129.) This identification structures the lover's view of himself in the love relationship, both through his view of the beloved and of other lovers.

- Describe how the lover identifies with the other. How does his identification present itself?

- How is clothing involved in this process?

- In Identifications (pg. 129), what shape does the lover's identification take? With whom does he identify and why?

- How was this process of identification shown historically?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

The lover would like to surround the other and their love in a cocoon of intimacy that is uniquely theirs. Yet, repeatedly the lover is reminded through images, interactions, or through language, that the other also belongs to the world. Discuss this dynamic in several of the figures, for example, Alteration (pg. 25), The Orange/Irksome (pg. 110), and Tenderness (pg. 224.) Does the lover's image of the other shift as a result?

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