Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of ManhoodIn 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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... , narcis- sism , erotic attachment to hair , latent homosexuality , castration anxiety , and Oedipus complex — not to mention such related is- sues as his construction of masculinity , his divided attitude 2 Introduction.
... , narcis- sism , erotic attachment to hair , latent homosexuality , castration anxiety , and Oedipus complex — not to mention such related is- sues as his construction of masculinity , his divided attitude 2 Introduction.
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... erotic desire . This is the legacy of our infantile polymorphous perversity , a legacy which gives us some degree of erotic free- dom . But not every eroticized object is a genuine sexual fetish , and such fleeting desires are a far cry ...
... erotic desire . This is the legacy of our infantile polymorphous perversity , a legacy which gives us some degree of erotic free- dom . But not every eroticized object is a genuine sexual fetish , and such fleeting desires are a far cry ...
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... erotic freedom . Thus , a perver- sion is not best defined by any sexual act but , rather , by the sig- nificance of the act to the person performing it.6 In the wake of Foucault's critique of the coercive power of the social norms ...
... erotic freedom . Thus , a perver- sion is not best defined by any sexual act but , rather , by the sig- nificance of the act to the person performing it.6 In the wake of Foucault's critique of the coercive power of the social norms ...
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... erotic excite- ment depends on one's feeling that one is sinning " ( 7 ) . Thus , in The Garden of Eden manuscript , when Barbara Sheldon first hatches her plans to cut her husband's hair just like her own , she urges him : " Let's ...
... erotic excite- ment depends on one's feeling that one is sinning " ( 7 ) . Thus , in The Garden of Eden manuscript , when Barbara Sheldon first hatches her plans to cut her husband's hair just like her own , she urges him : " Let's ...
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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 |
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