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The mastery of submission : inventions of masochism / / John K. Noyes



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Autore: Noyes John K (John Kenneth), <1955-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The mastery of submission : inventions of masochism / / John K. Noyes Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 1997
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 265 p. ) : ill. ;
Disciplina: 306.77/5
Soggetto topico: Masochism
Sadomasochism
Sexual dominance and submission
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-253) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Inventions of Masochism -- I. Beaten Women, Biology, and Technologies of Control -- 2. Reason, Passion, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Kraffi-Ebing and Sacher-Masoch -- 3. Technologies of Punishment, Penance, and Pleasure -- 4. Imperialist Man, Civilizing Woman, and the European Male Masochist -- 5. Narratives of Mastery, Fantasies of Failure -- 6. Beyond the Death Instinct -- 7. Disappearing and Reappearing Subjects -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to cruel discipline. While that predilection was noted as early as the sixteenth century, masochism was not codified as a concept until 1890. According to John K. Noyes, its invention reflected a crisis in the liberal understanding of subjectivity and sexuality which continues to inform discussions of masochism today. In essence, it remains a political concept. Viennese physician Richard von Krafft-Ebing coined the term masochism, based on the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Noyes analyzes the social and political problems that inspired the concept, suggesting, for example, that the triumphant expansion of European colonialism was in part animated by an ambivalence in masculine sexuality. Noyes documents the evolution of the concept of masochism with scenes in literature from John Cleland's Fanny Hill through Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs and Pauline Reage's Story of 0. Analysis of Freud's vastly influential rereading of masochism precedes an exploration of the work of his successors, including Wilhem Reich, Theodor Reik, Helene Deutsch, and Karen Horney. Noyes suggests that the thematics of feminine masochism emerged only gradually from an exclusively male concept.
Titolo autorizzato: The mastery of submission  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-3204-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910784613103321
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