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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 section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
2. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
3. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
4. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
5. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
Short Essay Questions
1. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?
2. 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?
3. Describe the lover's predicament with regard to understanding love in "I want to understand."
4. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.
5. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?
6. In Waiting, how is "the scenography of waiting" structured?
7. Discuss the function of the dark glasses in Dark Glasses/To Hide.
8. What is the lover's attitude towards choice in "What is to be done?"/Behavior?
9. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?
10. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Obscene, the author argues that modern views make love's sentimentality obscene, therefore, the lover's refusal to abandon sentiment becomes a transgression.
- What are the negative views of sentiment? Of the lover?
- Why is the lover's sentimentality obscene? Provide examples.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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