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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... or culturally innocent about sexuality. It will, however, attribute a much greater degree of specificity to the psyche than does The History of Sexuality, and articulate a more complex interaction between it and the social Introduction.
... or culturally innocent about sexuality. It will, however, attribute a much greater degree of specificity to the psyche than does The History of Sexuality, and articulate a more complex interaction between it and the social Introduction.
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... is nothing " natural " or culturally innocent about sexuality . It will , however , attribute a much greater degree of specificity to the psyche than does 1 The History of Sexuality , and articulate a more complex Introduction.
... is nothing " natural " or culturally innocent about sexuality . It will , however , attribute a much greater degree of specificity to the psyche than does 1 The History of Sexuality , and articulate a more complex Introduction.
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... psyche remains in excess of that complex , and that in other cases desire and identification may actually function as mechanisms for circumventing or even repudiating the dominant fiction , whose most privileged term is the phallus ...
... psyche remains in excess of that complex , and that in other cases desire and identification may actually function as mechanisms for circumventing or even repudiating the dominant fiction , whose most privileged term is the phallus ...
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... psyche , we would find not 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 ...
... psyche , we would find not 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 ...
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... psyche the subject has neither 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 ...
... psyche the subject has neither 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 ...
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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