love letters

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:42:00 +0000

this project has evolved into two different projects:

'love diaries' and 'some sex tales'

Thus

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:23:00 +0000

tel / thus

Endlessly required to define the loved object, and suffering from the uncertainties of this definition, the amorous subject dreams of a knowledge which would let him take the other as he is, thus no other, exonerated from any adjective.

Flayed

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:25:00 +0000

écorché / flayed

The particular sensibility of the amorous subject, which renders him vulnerable, defenseless to the slightest injuries.

Ravishment

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:55:00 +0000

ravissement / ravishment

The supposedly initial episode (though it may be reconstructed after the fact) during which the amorous subject is "ravished" (captured and enchanted) by the image of the loved object (popular name: love at first sight; scholarly name: enamoration).

Sobria Ebrietas

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sun, 09 May 2010 17:44:00 +0000

vouloir-saisir / will-to-possess

Realizing that the difficulties of the amorous relationship originate in his ceaseless desire to appropriate the loved being in one way or another, the subject decides to abandon henceforth all "will-to-possess" in his regard.

Clouds

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:18:00 +0000

nuages / clouds

Meaning and employment of that darkening of mood which overtakes the subject under various circumstances.

The Unknowable

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:05:00 +0000

inconnaissable / unknowable

Efforts of the amorous subject to understand and define the loved being "in itself," by some standard of character type, psychological or neurotic personality, independent of the particular data of the amorous relation.

Gradiva

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:02:00 +0000

Gradiva / Gradiva

This name, borrowed from Jensen's book analyzed by Freud, designates the image of the loved being insofar as that being agrees to enter to some degree into the amorous subject's delirium in order to help him escape from it.

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:38:00 +0000

twelfth letter arrived
(United Kingdom)

Aubade

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:07:00 +0000

réveil / waking

Various modes by which the amorous subject finds upon waking that he is once again besieged by the anxieties of his passion.

Fade-out

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:06:00 +0000

jading / fade-out

Painful ordeal in which the loved being appears to withdraw from all contact, without such enigmatic indifference even being directed against the amorous subject or pronounced to the advantage of anyone else, world or rival.

Agony

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:57:00 +0000

angoisse / anxiety

The amorous subject, according to one contingency or another, feels swept away by the fear of a danger, an injury, an abandonment, a revulsion - a sentiment he expresses under the name anxiety.

This can't go on

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:28:00 +0000

insupportable / unbearable

The sentiment of an accumulation of amorous sufferings explodes in this cry: "This can't go on . . ."

Exiled from the Image-repertoire

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:00 +0000

exil / exile

Deciding to give up the amorous condition, the subject sadly discovers himself exiled from his Image-repertoire.

Regretted?

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:42:00 +0000

regretté / regretted

Imagining himself dead, the amorous subject sees the loved being's life continue as if nothing had happened.

"I am crazy"

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:05:00 +0000

fou / mad

It frequently occurs to the amorous subject that he is or is going mad.

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:58:00 +0000

eleventh letter arrived (Jaguar badge)
(United Kingdom)

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:56:00 +0000

tenth letter arrived (CD)
(United Kingdom)

"What is to be done?"

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:13:00 +0000

conduite / behavior

A deliberative figure: the amorous subject raises (generally) futile problems of behavior: faced with this or that alternative, what is to be done? How is he to act?

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:09:00 +0000

ninth letter arrived

(United Kingdom)

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 12:28:00 +0000

eigth letter arrived

(United Kingdom)

Images

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:37:00 +0000

image / image

In the amorous realm, the most painful wounds are inflicted more often by what one sees than by what one knows.

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:05:00 +0000

sixth and seventh letter arrived

(Estonia)

Catastrophe

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:15:00 +0000

catastrophe / catastrophe

Violent crisis during which the subject, experiencing the amorous situation as a definitive impasse, a trap from which he can never escape, sees himself doomed to total destruction.

noreply@blogger.com (.) — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:03:00 +0000

fifth letter arrived
(unknown)