Rothenberg / Foster / Zizek Perversion and the Social Relation

sic IV
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8472-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 4, 240 Seiten

Reihe: SIC

Discusses the history, representation, and theorization of perversion and shows its relevance for understanding social relations, especially racism, liberalism, class antagonism, abjection, and multiculturalism, as well as considering its role in the esta

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rothenberg, Molly Anne

Foster, Dennis A.

Zizek, Slavoj

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Beneath the Skin: Perversion and Social Analysis / Molly Anne Rothenberg and Dennis Foster 1

Fatal West: W. S. Burrough's Perverse Destiny / Dennis Foster 15

Perversion / Bruce Fink 38

“I Know Well, But All the Same.” / Octave Mannoni 68

Exotic Rituals and Family Values in Exotica / Nina Schwartz 93

The Ambiguity of the Masochist Social Link / Slavoj Zizek 112

Confessions of a Medieval Sodomite / James Penney 126

“As If Set Free into Another Land”: Homosexuality, Rebellion, and Community in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner / Michael P. Bibler 159

Contamination's Germinations / E. L. McCallum 187

Works Cited 211

Contributors 217

Index 219

Über Autor(innen)

Molly Anne Rothenberg is Associate of English and Co-Director of the Literature Program at Tulane University. She is a practicing psychoanalyst and the author of Re-Thinking Blake’s Textuality.Dennis A. Foster is Frensley Professor of English at Southern Methodist University. He is author of Confession and Complicity in Narrative and Sublime Enjoyment.Slavoj Žižek is Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is the author of many books, and editor of Cogito and the Unconscious, Gaze and Voice as Love Objects (coedited), and Tarrying with the Negative, all published by Duke University Press.