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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... paradigm , which I would like briefly to map . The implicit starting point for virtually every formulation this book will propose is the assumption that lack of being is the irreducible condition of subjectivity . In acceding to ...
... paradigm , which I would like briefly to map . The implicit starting point for virtually every formulation this book will propose is the assumption that lack of being is the irreducible condition of subjectivity . In acceding to ...
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... paradigm , he associates its workings with the production of an " imaginary inertia " ( 126 ) , a phrase which refers us back to that paradigm . He suggests , in effect , that one of the results of that minimal degree of secondarization ...
... paradigm , he associates its workings with the production of an " imaginary inertia " ( 126 ) , a phrase which refers us back to that paradigm . He suggests , in effect , that one of the results of that minimal degree of secondarization ...
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... paradigms for conceptualizing male homosexuality . These three paradigms — and most particularly that which I will associate with the name " Leonardo ” —will provide the occasion for an extensive rethinking of the category of " the ...
... paradigms for conceptualizing male homosexuality . These three paradigms — and most particularly that which I will associate with the name " Leonardo ” —will provide the occasion for an extensive rethinking of the category of " the ...
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... paradigm from which it departs , a paradigm which I will call " the dominant fiction . " Ideology and Masculinity 1 The Dominant Fiction Twenty - two 12 / Male Subjectivity at the Margins.
... paradigm from which it departs , a paradigm which I will call " the dominant fiction . " Ideology and Masculinity 1 The Dominant Fiction Twenty - two 12 / Male Subjectivity at the Margins.
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... paradigm. In other words, I will be theorizing a societal phenomenon through a conceptual model which is attuned to the specificity of the individual psyche. This chapter will maintain that belief is granted not at the level of ...
... paradigm. In other words, I will be theorizing a societal phenomenon through a conceptual model which is attuned to the specificity of the individual psyche. This chapter will maintain that belief is granted not at the level of ...
Contents
15 | |
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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