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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... identity " or the " self . " The second - the fantasmatic - organizes and regulates unconscious desire . I derive my definition of the ego primarily from Lacan , who purges that category of many of the meanings which it has accreted ...
... identity " or the " self . " The second - the fantasmatic - organizes and regulates unconscious desire . I derive my definition of the ego primarily from Lacan , who purges that category of many of the meanings which it has accreted ...
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... identity , but a void . Lacan says of the subject of the unconscious that it is " acephalic ” —that it is " headless , " or , to be more precise , devoid of " self . " He adds that this subject has no ego , that it is indeed ...
... identity , but a void . Lacan says of the subject of the unconscious that it is " acephalic ” —that it is " headless , " or , to be more precise , devoid of " self . " He adds that this subject has no ego , that it is indeed ...
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... identity nor nameable desire , the fantasmatic and the moi together work to articulate a mythic but determining version of each . Slavoj Žižek has recently suggested that fantasy not only " provides the co - ordinates of our desire ...
... identity nor nameable desire , the fantasmatic and the moi together work to articulate a mythic but determining version of each . Slavoj Žižek has recently suggested that fantasy not only " provides the co - ordinates of our desire ...
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... identity it there assumes , or — to state the case somewhat differently - by what values it is marked . It is here that sexual , racial and class difference all come into play in crucial ways , as I will attempt to demonstrate in ...
... identity it there assumes , or — to state the case somewhat differently - by what values it is marked . It is here that sexual , racial and class difference all come into play in crucial ways , as I will attempt to demonstrate in ...
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... identity and unconscious desire. I will propose the positive Oedipus complex as the mechanism through which our dominant fiction seeks to effect this interpellation, and thereby to produce and sustain a normative masculinity. Chapters 3 ...
... identity and unconscious desire. I will propose the positive Oedipus complex as the mechanism through which our dominant fiction seeks to effect this interpellation, and thereby to produce and sustain a normative masculinity. Chapters 3 ...
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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