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What is romantic friendship?
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love is the antidote to domination
by Annika Hansteen-Izora
16 blocks • 3 months ago

... to make strange and change the forms that desire was thought to take.

Forms

The radical potential, in contrast, emanates from the model of the constantly bending, folding, and twisting incoherence of libidinal activity, all of which suggests: 1) a model of the desiring subject who is decentered or unstable; that "identity" itself, whether sexual or gendered, is therefore an always failed project in that it is always aspirational and determined by multiple, diverse and divergent aims; and 2) that the libidinal energies now routed into producing narrowed versions of normal/universal and individuated identity might be rerouted toward more expansive and generous sociabilities and worlds.

Potential

I think that’s what loneliness does to people, Dr. Seligman; they forget how to articulate their desires.

Loneliness
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I am just tired, and the idea of being able to focus on my desire alone seems like a long-lost dream.

Tired

By contrast, love is the embracing dream in which desire is reciprocated: rather than being isolating, love provides an image of an expanded self, the normative version of which is the two-as-one intimacy of the couple form. In the idealized image of their relation, desire will lead to love, which will make a world for desire's endurance.

Love will make a world
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