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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... lack of being is the irreducible condition of subjectivity . In acceding to language , the subject forfeits all existential reality , and foregoes any future possibility of " wholeness . " If we were in possession of an instrument which ...
... lack of being is the irreducible condition of subjectivity . In acceding to language , the subject forfeits all existential reality , and foregoes any future possibility of " wholeness . " If we were in possession of an instrument which ...
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... lack , and the latter on the side of Otherness and iridescence . It will attempt to demonstrate that all subjects are necessarily within specularity , even when occupying a viewing position , and that all antitheses of spectator and ...
... lack , and the latter on the side of Otherness and iridescence . It will attempt to demonstrate that all subjects are necessarily within specularity , even when occupying a viewing position , and that all antitheses of spectator and ...
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... lacks being . ( As Lacan remarks in his second seminar , " Desire is a relation of being to lack . This lack is the lack of being properly speaking . It isn't the lack of this or that , but lack of being whereby the being exists " [ 223 ] ...
... lacks being . ( As Lacan remarks in his second seminar , " Desire is a relation of being to lack . This lack is the lack of being properly speaking . It isn't the lack of this or that , but lack of being whereby the being exists " [ 223 ] ...
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... lack or manque - à - être— as a structure , much like fantasy , through which the subject seeks to fill the hole ... lacking subject . But what , precisely , is the relation between psychic reality as I have articulated it here , and the ...
... lack or manque - à - être— as a structure , much like fantasy , through which the subject seeks to fill the hole ... lacking subject . But what , precisely , is the relation between psychic reality as I have articulated it here , and the ...
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... lack.46 This castration or lack entails both the loss of being , and the subject's subordination to a discursive order which pre - exists , exceeds , and substantially " speaks " it . The Law of Kinship Structure poses greater ...
... lack.46 This castration or lack entails both the loss of being , and the subject's subordination to a discursive order which pre - exists , exceeds , and substantially " speaks " it . The Law of Kinship Structure poses greater ...
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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