Hatred and Forgiveness

CONTENTS

FOREWORD Pierre-Louis Fort

TRANSLATOR’S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART 1 World(s)

1. Thinking About Liberty in Dark Times

2. Secularism: “Values” at the Limits of Life

3. Liberty, Equality, Fraternity and … Vulnerability

4. On Parity, Again; or, Women and the Sacred

5. From Madonnas to Nudes: A Representation of Female Beauty

6. The Passion According to Motherhood

7. The War of the Sexes Since Antiquity

8. Beauvoir, Presently

9. Fatigue in the Feminine

PART 3 Psychoanalizing

10. The Sobbing Girl; or, On Hysterical Time

11. Healing, a Psychical Rebirth

12. From Object Love to Objectless Love

13. Desire for Law

14. Language, Sublimation, Women

15. Hatred and Forgiveness; or, From Abjection to Paranoia

16. Three Essays; or, the Victory of Polymorphous Perversion

PART 4 Religion

18. The Triple Uprooting of Israel

19. What Is Left of Our Loves?

PART 5 Portraits

20. The Inevitable Form

22. Writing as Strangeness and Jouissance

23. The “True-Lie,” Our Unassailable Contemporary

24. Murder in Byzantium; or,
Why I “ship myself on a voyage” in a Novel

NOTES ON THE ORIGINS OF THE TEXTS