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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. How does the informer wound the subject?
2. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?
3. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
4. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
5. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.
2. Exuberance/Expenditure: Discuss the contrast the author makes between the characters Werther and Albert.
3. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.
4. In The Ghost Ship/Errantry, why is the lover doomed to wander?
5. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.
6. 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.
7. Describe the type of jealousy displayed by Werther in the figure Jealousy.
8. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?
9. What kind of scenes does the lover image in Ideas of Solution/Outcomes?
10. In The Dedication, how does the act of giving follow "the family model"?
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
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 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?
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