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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... unconscious desire and identification do not always follow the trajectory delineated for them in advance , and that they sometimes assume forms which are profoundly antipathetic to the existing social formation . It will thus situate ...
... unconscious desire and identification do not always follow the trajectory delineated for them in advance , and that they sometimes assume forms which are profoundly antipathetic to the existing social formation . It will thus situate ...
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... 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 since the beginning of psychoanalysis , and who locates it emphatically at the level of ...
... 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 since the beginning of psychoanalysis , and who locates it emphatically at the level of ...
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... unconscious fantasy ... is supported only by taking a detour via the ego , " or that the mirror stage " entirely structures [ the subject's ] fantasy life . " 15 " 14 There is still more to say about the relation of fantasy and the ego ...
... unconscious fantasy ... is supported only by taking a detour via the ego , " or that the mirror stage " entirely structures [ the subject's ] fantasy life . " 15 " 14 There is still more to say about the relation of fantasy and the ego ...
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... unconscious fantasy to " take form , " and he characterizes binding as " the essence of the ego function . " 19 Although Laplanche thereby confers upon the ego attributes which exceed the Lacanian paradigm , he associates its workings ...
... unconscious fantasy to " take form , " and he characterizes binding as " the essence of the ego function . " 19 Although Laplanche thereby confers upon the ego attributes which exceed the Lacanian paradigm , he associates its workings ...
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... unconscious desire at a structural level , but bring with it values capable of shifting the ideological significance of the fantasmatic , and so of altering its relation to power . An external representation might , for instance , pass ...
... unconscious desire at a structural level , but bring with it values capable of shifting the ideological significance of the fantasmatic , and so of altering its relation to power . An external representation might , for instance , pass ...
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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