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Erotic attachments and cruel optimism: Sexual fantasy as affective impasse

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Feminist Theory: An International Interdisciplinary Journal

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Abstract

Feminist Theory, Ahead of Print.
Sex is routinely framed as a site of repair: with the right communication, technique or therapeutic work, intimacy will heal damage and secure coherence. This article asks what happens when that promise wears thin. Reading Berlant and Edelman'sSex, or ...