Terms developed within anarcho-nihilism’s account of resistance without hope.
The psychoanalytic apparatus
- Desire — the mode of wanting organized around lack, vulnerable to collapse and recuperation
- Drive — the mode of wanting that operates without an object and persists regardless of outcome
- The death drive — the force beyond the pleasure principle; the structural position of what every symbolic order excludes
- Jouissance — the excessive pleasure of resistance that exceeds instrumental calculation and resists recuperation
The critique
- Hope — the demand for optimism as a precondition of political engagement, analyzed as coercion