@article{Koštal_2020, title={Andrea Long Chu and the Trouble with Desire}, volume={17}, url={http://www.identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/452}, DOI={10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.452}, abstractNote={<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This essay discusses the writings by Andrea Long Chu, focusing on her understanding of desire and its role in the formation of gender and in the process of gender transition. The essay also deals with her much-disputed understanding of the relation between desire and politics, taking into account the critique formulated by Amia Srinivasan. In conclusion the essay argues that Chu’s writings, if taken with a dose of caution and supplemented with the theory of desire formulated by Jacques Lacan, can offer us insights about the importance of desire for understanding various phenomena of human experience, in which we otherwise maybe wouldn’t look for it. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Author(s): Andrija Koštal</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Title (English): Andrea Long Chu and the Trouble with Desire</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Journal Reference: </span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020)</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Range: 70-74</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Page Count: 5</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Citation (English): Andrija Koštal, “Andrea Long Chu and the Trouble with Desire,”</span><em><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture</span></em><span style="font-weight: 400;">, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 70-74.</span></p> <h2><strong>Author Biography</strong></h2> <p><strong>Andrija Koštal, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Andrija Koštal is a student of comparative literature at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, about to graduate with a topic on the discourse of illness in a European modernist novel. His primary field of research concerns the relationship between literature and philosophy throughout the history of modernity (especially through the Twentieth century). On the part of philosophy, he is interested in the philosophy of immanence, non-philosophy/non-standard philosophy and some forms of materialism. Other areas of interest include artificial intelligence, ecology and feminism. Published a few articles in various Croatian scientific journals. </span></p>}, number={2-3}, journal={Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture}, author={Koštal, Andrija}, year={2020}, month={Dec.}, pages={70-74} }