LEADER 03702oam 22005894a 450 001 9910330455503321 005 20230621135938.0 010 $a1-950192-30-X 024 7 $a10.21983/P3.0256.1.00 035 $a(CKB)4100000008530715 035 $a(OAPEN)1005108 035 $a(OCoLC)1155170050 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse81968 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33914 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000008530715 100 $a20190605d2019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurmu#---auuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aMisinterest$eEssays, Pensées, and Dreams /$fM.H. Bowker 205 $a1st ed.. 210 $aBrooklyn, NY$cpunctum books$d2019 210 1$aSanta Barbara :$cPunctum Books,$d2019. 210 4$d©2019. 215 $a1 online resource (161 pages) $cillustrations; PDF, digital file(s) 311 08$aPrint version: 9781950192298 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $a"The term "interest" lacks a precise antonym. In English, we have "disinterested" and "uninteresting," but we want for a term that denotes robust opposition to interest. The same appears to hold true in every other language (as far as we know). Interest's missing antonym reflects not merely a widespread lexical oversight, but a misrecognition of interest's complete and exact meaning. More importantly, the idea that interest has no opposite expresses a certain refusal to acknowledge the power of the impulse to extinguish interest, for the self and for others. Why then do we foreclose interest's possibility, degrade our (and others') capacities to experience interest, and destroy interest's objects? Why do we decline what interest proffers - which includes creative and subjective being, thinking, and relating - in favor of more primitive modes of survival, thoughtlessness, and nonbeing? Why do relationships - with ourselves, with others, with objects - toward which genuine interest draws us seem sometimes, if not often, unbearable? These questions are difficult. Their answers, even more so. Misinterest: Essays, Pense?es, and Dreams attempts to approach them in an honest way, without making them fascinating, mysterious, boring, obscurantist, or fascinatingly mysteriously boringly obscurantist. Outwardly, Misinterest is concerned with dreams and forgetting and Eros and soaring dogs and groups and suicidal suburban teenagers and sex and jury duty and Nazis and fathers and hatred and holy parrots and fundamentalists and plagues and other things that may or may not be interesting. Ultimately, however, it seeks, like Jules Renard, "en restant exact" (in remaining true/real), to shed light on the establishment of misinterest, missingness, and mystery where and when they need not be, and, thus, on the psychic, familial, and political forces that compel us not to be when and where we ought"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLiterary essays$2bicssc 606 $aCultural studies$2bicssc 606 $aPsychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)$2bicssc 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $apsychoanalysis 610 $ahallucinogens 610 $asex 610 $aethical philosophy 610 $aliterary essays 610 $amorality 610 $adreams 615 7$aLiterary essays 615 7$aCultural studies 615 7$aPsychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology) 676 $a150 700 $aBowker$b M.H.$0802562 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910330455503321 996 $aMisinterest$91994434 997 $aUNINA