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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Masochism"”.
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Masochism and Decadent literature: Jean Lorrain and Joséphin Péladan
… as merely the passive forms of sadism, or sadomasochism (Mario Praz). As Jennifer Birkett suggests, Decadent sensibility and sexuality have arguably less affinity with Sade than Sacher-Masoch. Following Birkett, and utilising Gilles Deleuze’s idea of the independence of masochism from sadism …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… is a philosophical examination of women’s masochism from several different viewpoints. Beginning from a centre of Western psychoanalytic thought, I analyse what Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Žižek say about women and masochistic practices, and then continue the …
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Inflicted Viewing: Examining Moral Masochism, Empathy, and the Frustration of Trauma Cinema
… Sigmund Freud’s conceptualization of moral masochism and Wilfred Bion’s theory of thinking. Through four films: <em>Una, The Tale, The Tribe</em>, and <em>Son of Saul</em> I explore the affective nature of films that depict trauma and why one would gravitate towards such upsetting material. …
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BDSM. A search for the container-contained experience: An object-relations approach to the problem of masochism
Freud took two decades to fit pleasure in pain (masochism) into his instinct theory. In his endeavours to do so, he developed several models of masochism that were dependent on instinct vicissitudes and their governing principles. Freud took a marked turn towards a quasi-object-relating theory when …
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Pain or Pleasure: The Allure of the Masochistic Young Adult Fantasy Protagonist, As Seen in Twilight and Other Texts : With a particular focus on the language of sexuality used within a select number of young adult paranormal romance texts
There is a general misconception of masochism amongst critics and academics. Masochism is often analysed in a way that either regards it as a taboo subject, or wrongly identifies it as sexual abuse. Similarly, masochism is also presented in a highly negative way within young adult literature. In …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… domination and submission, and sadism and masochism). It begins with a chapter outlining the history and theory of BDSM. The remaining chapters explore concepts of fantasy, performance, consent, and eroticized violence in three Middle English texts, Sir Gowther, The Book of Margery Kempe, …
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Trapped in Bluebeard's Chamber: Rose Terry Cooke and Nineteenth-Century "Desperate Housewives."
… escape, many use (1) religious devotion, (2) masochism, and (3) homosocial relations as “coping mechanisms” in their plight. I identify each of these reactions to Bluebeard figures in Cooke’s writing in order to understand the contradictions in her works, for, like Cooke, these brides were …
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Painting the zone : Chernobyl and the "Art of witness"
… elements of abjection, the narrative, virus, masochism and art history in order to produce "countervisions." These countervisions exist as one facet of the "art of witness", a method by which particular events, such as that of Chernobyl, are visually addressed. Through a dismantling of borders …
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Freud after Bataille: Death, Dissolution and the 'Oceanic' Feeling
… the death drive in concurrence with narcissism, masochism, and the uncanny, arguing that the theoretical indeterminacy of these concepts might be ascribed to the manner in which they interrogate, exceed, and destabilize the prevailing perception of the self as an integrated whole. As a situation …
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A Series of Humiliations
… that must have existed since ancient times: masochism. Subversive in its day, it dealt with humiliation in a closed setting: during sex. The present work posits human existence as humiliation, and deals with a trinity of debasement: mind, body, spirit. The hyperconscious mind is beset not …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… and Great Expectations which show how male masochism in Dickens's novels is not so much a negation of paternal power and privilege as it is a consequence of the latter's introjection within the subject as fantasy, a fantasy in which the subject is fastened, as in Pip's fever dream, to "a …
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1981: One or Several Aesthetics?
… (1969) and the first section of his book on Masochism (1967) to explore the waves of consistency between Deleuze’s understanding of language and the body, which is also to say between literature and painting. Yet while The Logic of Sensation may read like an exhaustive theory of art, Deleuze …
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The Subaltern Clinic
… the problems of difference, violence, sadism and masochism, and anxiety in the work of colonial and postcolonial practitioners of psychoanalysis as well as postcolonial artists and novelists. The Subaltern Clinic makes the argument that an attention to the legacy of the death drive in the …
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<i>Presenciar el pasado</i>: Witnessing the Spanish and Argentine Dictatorships through Film and Television
… with four elements of spectatorship theory (masochism, suture, embodied spectatorship, and meta-witnessing) to provide a holistic viewing experience that appeals to mind and body, thereby overcoming the distancing effects of time and representation.</p>
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Playing the Game: Violence and the Revolt Against Normative Masculinity in John Updike's Rabbit Run, Norman Mailer's an American Dream, and Phil Andros's $tud
… of his masculine charade in the form of sexual masochism. He is figuratively and literally stripped bare by a black master, which is perhaps the logical fruition of postmodern binaries of masculinity. Where Rabbit and Rojack see no alternative to the pressures of masculinity other than flight, …
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The dichotomy of ‘them and us’ thinking in Counselling Psychology incorporating an empirical study on BDSM
… Dominance and Submission; and Sadism and Masochism (BDSM). Given the wide range of activities that fall under the umbrella of BDSM (Weinberg, 2006), along with the associated stigma of BDSM (Wright, 2006), the exact prevalence of people engaging in it is unknown. However, the huge …
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Dark mirrors and disembodied spirits : gender, sexuality and incest in selected fiction by Daphne du Maurier
… on seduction and Gilles Deleuze's account of masochism help to explain Philip's compulsion to rid himself of his wealth, his land and the house in which he grew up, so that he might live like a servant with his cousin's maternal and alluring widow. In my reading of each of these novels, …
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Kiwi Kinksters: BDSM in Auckland, New Zealand
… Discipline, Dominance/Submission and/or Sadism/Masochism, and is interchangeably used throughout this thesis with the acronym BDSM) – the first of its kind in New Zealand – constitutes the bulk of this dissertation. Alongside direct observations made by the researcher-participant, 21 …
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A reading of selected writings of James Joyce in relation to the works of Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari)
… in modernity depicted and diagnosed in the masochism of Bloom in Ulysses. In Chapter Three, I look at the epiphany, Deleuze's concept of Joyce's 'epiphanic machine', 'duration' as understood by Bergson and Deleuze, and the Deleuzian concept of 'affect' as potentially liberatory insights, …
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Tiptoeing through the Tulips at Seventy: A Memoir
<p>This is a memoir about my lifetime search for clarity about my gender identity. My primary goal for the project was to catalog the steps I took in the sometimes-tortured and confusing path I followed over the course of my life, from childhood to late adulthood, striving to understand who and …
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