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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... erotic norm. He argues that those two categories come into existence simultaneously, and are generated by the same discursive imperative. In The History of Sexuality, he isolates the female hysteric, the masturbating child, the perverse ...
... erotic norm. He argues that those two categories come into existence simultaneously, and are generated by the same discursive imperative. In The History of Sexuality, he isolates the female hysteric, the masturbating child, the perverse ...
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... erotic norm . He argues that those two categories come into existence simultaneously , and are generated by the same discursive imperative . In The History of Sexuality , he isolates the female hysteric , the masturbating child , the ...
... erotic norm . He argues that those two categories come into existence simultaneously , and are generated by the same discursive imperative . In The History of Sexuality , he isolates the female hysteric , the masturbating child , the ...
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... better calculated than any other twentieth - century text to dramatize the advantages to be derived by the female subject even from those forms of marginal male subjectivity which foreclose upon woman as an erotic object . Introduction / ...
... better calculated than any other twentieth - century text to dramatize the advantages to be derived by the female subject even from those forms of marginal male subjectivity which foreclose upon woman as an erotic object . Introduction / ...
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Kaja Silverman. subjectivity which foreclose upon woman as an erotic object . However , it is perhaps premature at this point to say more about these local determinants , which will become evident as the book progresses . Let us then ...
Kaja Silverman. subjectivity which foreclose upon woman as an erotic object . However , it is perhaps premature at this point to say more about these local determinants , which will become evident as the book progresses . Let us then ...
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... erotic displacement — as the necessity to substitute erotic objects outside the family for those within . The Name - of - the - Father is also lived by the boy as the paternal legacy which will be his if he renounces the mother , and ...
... erotic displacement — as the necessity to substitute erotic objects outside the family for those within . The Name - of - the - Father is also lived by the boy as the paternal legacy which will be his if he renounces the mother , and ...
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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