Male Subjectivity at the MarginsRoutledge, 2017 M09 25 - 464 pages Through the examination of a range of literary and cinematic texts, from William Wyler's classic The Best Years of Our Lives to the novels of Henry James, Silverman offers a bold new look at masculinities which deviate from the social norm. |
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... belief in the whole of the dominant fiction . In so doing , it will foreground masculinity as a crucial site for renegotiating our vraisemblance . Male Subjectivity at the Margins will then embark upon an extended investigation of some ...
... belief in the whole of the dominant fiction . In so doing , it will foreground masculinity as a crucial site for renegotiating our vraisemblance . Male Subjectivity at the Margins will then embark upon an extended investigation of some ...
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... belief . The theoretical articulation of some non - phallic masculinities would consequently seem to be an urgent feminist project . The kinds of male subjectivity which will be anatomized here are , moreover , precisely those which ...
... belief . The theoretical articulation of some non - phallic masculinities would consequently seem to be an urgent feminist project . The kinds of male subjectivity which will be anatomized here are , moreover , precisely those which ...
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... belief , which it will locate at a site emphatically exterior to consciousness , and which it will show to be crucial to the maintenance of traditional masculinity . Chapter 1 will argue , with Freud , that belief hinges upon the ...
... belief , which it will locate at a site emphatically exterior to consciousness , and which it will show to be crucial to the maintenance of traditional masculinity . Chapter 1 will argue , with Freud , that belief hinges upon the ...
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... belief, I will also be accounting for the operations of belief through recourse to a psychoanalytic paradigm. In other words, I will be theorizing a societal phenomenon through a conceptual model which is attuned to the specificity of ...
... belief, I will also be accounting for the operations of belief through recourse to a psychoanalytic paradigm. In other words, I will be theorizing a societal phenomenon through a conceptual model which is attuned to the specificity of ...
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... belief . " As we will see , it is through ideological belief that a society's " reality " is constituted and sustained , and that a subject lays claim to a normative identity . Although these are all manifestly important concerns , they ...
... belief . " As we will see , it is through ideological belief that a society's " reality " is constituted and sustained , and that a subject lays claim to a normative identity . Although these are all manifestly important concerns , they ...
Contents
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Historical Trauma and Male Subjectivity | 52 |
The Gaze and the Look | 121 |
Masochism and Male Subjectivity | 185 |
Masochistic Ecstasy and the Ruination of Masculinity | 214 |
Libidinal Politics | 296 |
Afterword | 389 |
Index | 441 |
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