Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood

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SUNY Press, Jan 1, 1999 - Literary Criticism - 366 pages
In Hemingway's Fetishism, Carl Eby demonstrates in painstaking detail and with stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care. Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work.

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Contents

The Core Complex and the Field of Fetishistic Fantasy
15
Freud Fetishism and Hemingways Phallic Women
41
Biography PostFreudian Theory and Beyond the Phallus
87
Loss Fetishism and the Fate of the Transitional Object
119
Ebony and Ivory Hemingways Fetishization of Race
155
Bisexuality Splitting and the Mirror of Manhood
185
Perversion Pornography and Creativity
241
Notes
277
Bibliography
335
Index
349
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About the author (1999)

Carl P. Eby is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort.

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