![]() ![]() His use of these references is his way of reaffirming his own thoughts and conclusions about the mystical discourse of lovers. He bases some of his thoughts and writings on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, Plato's Symposium, Nietzsche, Freud and many others. While he normally cannot react to a situation like a child, his feelings of abandonment and of the death of the other (end of the relationship) are just as strong as the child's.īarthes uses many references not generally direct quotes but more generally. ![]() Likewise, the adult lover applies many of these childhood feelings to his love relationship. The child becomes accustomed to the feelings of abandonment but never comes to like them. The mother returns and the child is satisfied for the time being. When the mother is away, the child may think she is never coming back-she is dead. He makes quite a few references to the fear of abandonment by the child. ![]() The reader has a wide-ranging plethora of thought and emotion to which he can relate.īarthes ties in some lover's discourse to childhood reactions and relationships. The discourse offered in this tome may be considered as suggestions in some cases and as affirmations in other experiences. Each lover experiences his unique joy along with that of his misery in his own relationship. The self-expressions of waiting, anxiety, memory, exuberance, dependency as presented by Barthes are food for thought. The insecure lover in a self-perceived lop-sided relationship is the victim of his own internal debate. It is a self-induced misery which has no end and no winner. However, it is an endless cycle: the bad thoughts are tamped back down by the good thoughts which give way to more negative words. One's words, the thoughts in his mind, defining one's misery, insecurity in the other are driven back down by counter other words. The internal conflict over how to deal with the other is infinite and feeds upon itself. ![]() Each developing phase of this lover's one-sided discourse becomes the reality-all blown to shatters when the other finally appears. The other has found someone else it is over. How could the other behave so carelessly? How could the other behave so rudely? However, with the continuing absence of the loved one, this pique then devolves into anxiety and desperation. Was this the correct meeting time? Place? Will the man look too needy, too anxious if he telephones his lover as to her whereabouts? Wonder can soon turn to anger. For example, the man waiting in a restaurant for his tardy lover begins to wonder if there was a miscommunication. The writings offer an interesting analysis of the lover's discourse for everyone-those having been in love as well as those anticipating the eventuality.īarthes describes how the lover positions himself for misery as his thoughts fight against one another. It is fragile and vulnerable to disruption. This image-repertoire is the reality of the lover whether actually true or not outside his internal discourse. Barthes further defines the process as an Image-repertoire that is, a set of realities that exist in the lover's mind about his relationship. This language is silent and is more aptly described as the thought process a lover goes through in dealing with his relationship. As suggested by the title, the work covers Barthes' thoughts and feelings about the internal lover's language. The book "A Lover's Discourse, Fragments" is a work by Roland Barthes, translated from French to English by Richard Howard. ![]()
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