3. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?

4. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

5. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.

2. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.

3. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.

4. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

5. In the section I Love You, what happens to the amorous subject when he finally here's the words "I love you" returned to him? Cite a couple examples.

6. In Images, what is the lover's relationship to visual images he sees?

7. What kind of scenes does the lover image in Ideas of Solution/Outcomes?

8. Describe the type of jealousy displayed by Werther in the figure Jealousy.

9. Describe the scenario in At Fault/Faults between the lover and the loved one at the train station.

10. Describe the lover's struggle with demons in "We are our own demons"/Demons.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The other's absence is an important theme in the text. It surfaces in figures such as Absence, Anxiety, and Waiting. Discuss how the lover defines himself through absence:

- What does it mean that amorous absence functions in a single direction? (Absence, pg. 13)

- Who carries out the discourse of absence historically and what does this mean for the lover?

- What position does the other occupy in this dynamic?

- How does the other's absence affect the lover? (Anxiety, pg. 29)

- In what way is the absent other associated with truth? (Waiting, pg. 37)

Essay Topic 2

"I love you" is a peculiar phrase because, as the author states in I-Love-You (pg. 147), it is the metaphor of nothing else: it only has meaning at the moment it is uttered. Analyze the author's argument in this section.

- How does he describe the utterance in linguistic terms, i.e. how does it fit into language?

- What are the various responses to this utterance, both acceptable and unacceptable to the lover's ears?

- How is I-love-you an "active force," and against what?

Essay Topic 3

In Jealousy, the author says that "Werther's jealousy derives from Images" (pg. 144.) Likewise, in Images (pg. 132), the author describes how Werther is affected by a particular scene involving Charlotte. The image clearly has a powerful effect on the lover. Why?

- What does the image represent?

- How does the lover interpret various images and what do they become for him?

- How does the image inform desire? (pg. 145.)

- What is the nature of the jealousy that images provoke?

(see the answer keys)

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