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“From now on the subject says: “Hullo object!” “I destroyed you.”
― Jessica Benjamin, The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination

“While Darwin's tear is a defense, and Freud's tear is a symptomatic eruption, Sartre's tear is a refusal.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects

“Don’t throw tantrums; that’s unprofessional.”
― Joan Bolker, Write Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day: A Guide to Starting, Revising, and Finishing Your Doctoral Thesis

“The history of philosophy and philosophical criticism generally has assumed that Aristophanes's hiccups and sneezes were dry, polite affairs that could be reduced to their ordinal, satirical, historical, or literary import. But while the philosophers may have decided to avoid excess food and drink for the sake of philosophical reflection, the gustatory returns in the odorous afterglow of digestion's excessive effects on the bloated corpus.”
― Eugenie Brinkema, The Forms of the Affects