tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162088 mayhap's journal mayhap 2013-09-10T02:43:19Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-05-01:162088:246737 2013-09-10T02:43:19Z 2013-09-10T02:43:19Z satisfied public 0 Don't you love it when you come across a piece of jargon or term of art that expresses something you had wanted to say with grace and concision?¹<br /><br />I was reading Amy Richlin's chapter on reading Ovid's rapes in the collection of essays that she edited on <i>Pornography and Representation in Greece and Rome</i>, where she alludes to "the model of fantasy derived from psychoanalytic theory, in which the subject oscillates among the terms of the fantasy" and instantly I thought <i>yes, that, precisely!</i><br /><br />I put in yet another interlibrary loan request for <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1521165.Formations_Of_Fantasy">the work cited</a> in case I found anything else interesting in there, but just that single phrase is perfect to me.<br /><br />¹And, relatedly, can you suggest a more elegant way to put that? *g*<br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mayhap&ditemid=246737" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments