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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sadomasochism"”.
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"A fine balance" : a case study of love, hatred and sadomasochism
… The mother's combined presentation of hatred and sadomasochism, underlying a borderline personality structure, acted as a powerful obstacle in her being able to love her daughter. Using the theoretical tenets of self psychology to understand the clinical presentation of both mother and daughter, …
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Demystifying A Sexual Perversion: An Existential Reading of Sadomasochism and Erich Fromm's Call to Love
… that sex is the primary passion behind sadomasochism and critiques which have debunked the idea of gendered polarities as intrinsic to its nature, the popular imagination of sadomasochism remains as a gendered sexual perversion. This dissertation explores how theories of sadomasochism …
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The Mind Of A Sadomasocist:a Theatrical Role Analysis Of Orin Scrivello D.D.S
… nature and his blatant abuse towards Audrey. Sadomasochism is defined as "the deriving of sexual gratification, from being physically or emotionally abused". It is also defined as "a willingness or tendency to subject oneself to unpleasant or trying experiences". The psychology of …
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Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis
… of representations of bondage, discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) and kink practices in mainstream media and American culture. Along with this, empirical researchers working in sexuality studies continue to show, contrary to the history of stigmatizing accounts in the history of clinical …
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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 …
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The Erotic Work of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, and Sex Worker Praxis
… (Bondage/Dominance, Dominance/Submission, and Sadomasochism) subculture from the 1950s to 2020s, tracking the emergence of groups like the Asian American Feminist Collective (AAFC) and the Asian Leather and Kink Alliance (ALKA). The intersection of kink and activism is further explored in …
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The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism
… such as Indigenous futurism, Indigenous moral sadomasochism, and Indigenous erotica. To theorize Indigenous women’s masochism means to reject it as a fantasy of men and look to our own culture for guidance.
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Parched: The Queer Alcoholic on the Modern American Stage, 1940-1970
… transgender sexuality, voyeurism, and sadomasochism). Unsurprisingly, both excessive drinking and queer sexual conduct came to be similarly pathologized as compulsive behaviours that caused both bodily and psychic disintegration. "Parched" analyzes how American playwrights have linked …
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Look at Me: Japanese Women Writers at the Millennial Turn
… disturb readers with stories of incest, sadomasochism, and eating disorders. Representative texts from their respective oeuvres are categorized and analyzed in terms of the "obscene," the "abject," and the "traumatic" in order to elucidate--and ultimately understand--the ways in which …
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Le cuir de Michel Foucault
<p>Dans ce mémoire j'analyse le point de vue sur le S/M que Michel Foucault a pu formuler dans ses interviews. Définissant le pouvoir comme un processus de théâtralisation qui vise soit l'être social soit le corps, Michel Foucault propose de penser le S/M dans le cadre d'une esthétisation et d'une …
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Metáforas extremas del neoliberalismo en la literatura latinoamericana
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