Judith Butler Quotes about Desire

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Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact.

Judith Butler

Grief, Missing, Desire

Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.19, Psychology Press

I'm no great fan of the phallus, and have made my own views known on this subject before, so I do not propose a return to a notion of the phallus as the third term in any and all relations of desire.

Judith Butler

Views, Desire, Fans

Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory Judith Butler (2004). “Undoing Gender”, p.135, Routledge