Talk about fantasy sustains eroticism that silence about it destroys

Evidence

Compare the Ballards’ marriage to that of the Harfords’ in Eyes Wide Shut. The Ballards’ using of their sexual encounters with others as a stimulus for their own — impassive, poised, oneiric — sex forms a clear contrast with the deadlock of the Harfords’ marriage, which is exposed in Bill’s failure to cope, or keep up, with Alice’s fantasy. While Bill is scandalised by Alice’s articulation of her fantasies, sex in the Ballards’ marriage is governed by the “feminine” drive to talk; it is almost as if all of the physical encounters happen only so that they can be converted into stories to be recounted later. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 178

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Lacanian reading of the Ballards’ non-relationship from earlier chapters in this book. — connects to: Human sexuality depends on fantasy, not biological excitation — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 168; Proliferating erotic imagery atrophies rather than stimulates individual sexual fantasy — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2463; Menopause brings repressed erotic fantasy that surfaces as neurotic behavior (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Human sexuality depends on fantasy, not biological excitation #corroborates (0.85) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 168
• Married partners invent erotic fantasies to restore the alterity marriage erased #exemplifies (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1194
• Proliferating erotic imagery atrophies rather than stimulates individual sexual fantasy #contradicts (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2463
• Menopause brings repressed erotic fantasy that surfaces as neurotic behavior #exemplifies (0.70)