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Desire: A memoir by Jonathan Dollimore

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May 2018, no. 401

Desire: A memoir by Jonathan Dollimore

Bloomsbury, $39.99 pb, 192 pp, 9781350023109

Desire: A memoir by Jonathan Dollimore

by
May 2018, no. 401

In one of my pedagogical fantasies, I design the curriculum for a course called ‘Modern Theories of Desire’. My students read Marx, Beauvoir, Foucault, and Butler. They study Hegel on desire’s organisation of the everyday relationship between the self and the world; some critiques of developmental psychology, a sociology of addiction; Freud, of course. I also screen films – Almodóvar, Wong Kar-wai – set a novel or two, and in class we read poetry. It may seem a whimsical curriculum, but by semester’s end my students have a rigorous working knowledge of ‘ways of thinking about desire’, their assumptions have been questioned, curiosities aroused.

Dion Kagan reviews 'Desire: A memoir' by Jonathan Dollimore

Desire: A memoir

by Jonathan Dollimore

Bloomsbury, $39.99 pb, 192 pp, 9781350023109

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