critical theory with slavoj zizek: ‘Would you like to come in for a coffee?’ To his answer – ‘There is a problem – I don’t drink coffee’ – she retorts with a smile: ‘No problem – I don’t have any …’ The immense, direct erotic power of her reply resides in how, through a double negation, she articulates an embarrassingly direct sexual invitation without ever mentioning sex: when she first invites the guy in for a coffee and then admits she has no coffee, she does not cancel her invitation, she just makes it clear that the first invitation for a coffee was a stand-in (or pretext), indifferent in itself, for the invitation to sex.