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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 Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
2. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
3. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
4. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
5. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
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. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?
3. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?
4. Describe the lover's predicament with regard to understanding love in "I want to understand."
5. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?
6. In the section called The Tip of the Nose/Alteration, the author uses a scene between Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther to represent the lover's change in attitude toward the loved one. What happens in this scene and what does it demonstrate?
7. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.
8. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?
9. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.
10. In The Absent One/Absence, how does the lover interpret the other's absence?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Ravishment, the myth of love at first sight is discussed at length. Love at first sight or ravishment is in fact drawn explicitly from the image-repertoire.
- How does the text describe love at first sight?
- What are the conditions needed for it to occur?
- How does the visual function, e.g. what is the significance of the "scene?"
- How does the aural function?
- Does love at first sight really happen, or is it something that takes shape in the lover's mind upon reflection?
Essay Topic 2
In Induction (pg. 136), how does the author describe the process whereby we come to love another?
- Define the term "induction."
- How does induction work in the novel Werther?
- Describe the process of induction in culture: from where do we receive images of what is desirable?
- Can you conclude from this section that love is original?
Essay Topic 3
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"?
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