@article{TEXTUAL,
      recid = {8337},
      author = {Berlant, Lauren},
      title = {Desire/Love},
      address = {2012-12-05},
      number = {TEXTUAL},
      abstract = {&lt;p&gt;“There is nothing more alienating than having your  pleasures disputed by someone with a theory,” writes Lauren  Berlant. Yet the ways in which we live sexuality and  intimacy have been profoundly shaped by theories —  especially psychoanalytic ones, which have helped to place  sexuality and desire at the center of the modern story  about what a person is and how their history should be  read. At the same time, other modes of explanation have  been offered by popular and mass culture.  In these  domains, sexual desire is not deemed the core story of  life; it is mixed up with romance, a particular version of  the story of love.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In this small theoretical  novella-cum-dictionary entry, Lauren Berlant engages love  and desire in separate entries. the first entry, Desire,  mainly describes the feeling one person has for something  else: it is organized by psychoanalytic accounts of  attachment, and tells briefly the history of their  importance in critical theory and practice. The second  entry, Love, begins with an excursion into fantasy, moving  away from the parent-child structure so central to  psychoanalysis and looking instead at the centrality of  context, environment, and history. The entry on Love  describes some workings of romance across personal life and  commodity culture, the place where subjects start to think  about fantasy on behalf of their actual lives.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Whether viewed psychoanalytically, institutionally, or  ideologically, love is deemed always an outcome of fantasy.  Without fantasy, there would be no love.  Desire/Love takes  us on a tour of all of the things that sentence might  mean.&lt;/p&gt;},
      url = {http://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/8337},
}