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Book Masochism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 302 pages

Download or read book Masochism written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains an essay on the psychology and origins of masochism called Coldness and cruelty by G Deleuze and the novel Venus in furs by L von Sacher-Masoch.

Book Masochism  an Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty

Download or read book Masochism an Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty written by Gilles Deleuze and published by George Braziller. This book was released on 1971 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Venus in Furs

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • Publisher : Cosimo Classics
  • Release : 2015-06-15
  • ISBN : 1616409584
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book Venus in Furs written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and published by Cosimo Classics. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novella that was originally part of the epic series Legacy of Cain by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs is an exploration of the themes of sado-masochism and female dominance in a time when the terms had yet to be conceived. The main character dreams of the goddess Venus wearing furs while he speaks to her about love. Unable to let go of the fantasy, he reads a book that tells the story of Severin and Wanda, a couple involved in a sado-masochistic relationship. Severin enslaves himself to Wanda, who treats him with ever-increasing brutality and disdain. The novel was translated into English in 1921 by Fernanda Savage, and has been adapted multiple times for film and theater. In 2013, it was adapted for film again into a French movie by the same title, based on the 2010 play by American playwright David Ives, which was in turn inspired by this classic.

Book Ernest Hemingway

Download or read book Ernest Hemingway written by R. Fantina and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study breaks new ground by examining the profoundly submissive and masochistic posture toward women exhibited by many of Hemingway's heroes, from Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises to David Bourne in The Garden of Eden. The discussion draws on the ideas of diverse authors revealing that 'masochistic aesthetic' informs many of the texts.

Book Macho Sluts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick Califia
  • Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Release : 2010-07-09
  • ISBN : 1458780449
  • Pages : 554 pages

Download or read book Macho Sluts written by Patrick Califia and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-07-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1988, Pat Califia's Macho Sluts, a collection of S/M stories set in San Francisco's dyke bathhouses, sex parties, and S/M gay bars, shocked the lesbian community and caused an upheaval in the field of queer publishin...

Book Contract with the Skin

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kathy O'Dell
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780816628872
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Contract with the Skin written by Kathy O'Dell and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having oneself shot. Putting out fires with the bare hands and feet. Biting the body and photographing the marks. Sewing one's own mouth shut--all in front of an audience. What do these kinds of performances tell us about the social and historical context in which they occurred? Fascinating and accessibly written, CONTRACT WITH THE SKIN addresses the question in relation to psychoanalytic and legal concepts of masochism. 34 photos.

Book Gilles Deleuze s Difference and Repetition

Download or read book Gilles Deleuze s Difference and Repetition written by James Williams and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this introduction to Deleuze's seminal work, Difference and Repetition, with new material on intensity, science and action and new engagements with Bryant, Sauvagnargues, Smith, Somers-Hall and de Beistegui.

Book Masochism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
  • Publisher : Zone Books
  • Release : 1991-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780942299540
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Masochism written by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and published by Zone Books. This book was released on 1991-03-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze’s essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks to develop and explain Masoch’s “peculiar way of ‘desexualizing’ love while at the same time sexualizing the entire history of humanity.” He shows that masochism is something far more subtle and complex than the enjoyment of pain, that masochism has nothing to do with sadism: their worlds do not communicate, just as the genius of those who created them — Masoch and Sade — lie stylistically, philosophically, and politically poles apart. Venus in Furs, the most famous of Masoch’s novels, belongs to an unfinished cycle of works that Masoch entitled The Heritage of Cain. The cycle was to treat a series of themes, including love, war, and death. The present work is about love. Although the entire constellation of symbols that has come to characterize the masochistic syndrome can be found here — fetishes, whips, disguises, fur-clad women, contracts, humiliations, punishment, and always the volatile presence of a terrible coldness — these received associations do not eclipse the truly singular and surprising power of Masoch’s eroticism.

Book Painful pleasures

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  • Author : Christopher Vaccaro
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2022-07-12
  • ISBN : 1526153343
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Painful pleasures written by Christopher Vaccaro and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely volume ventures into the subject of sadomasochism in varied aspects of medieval life. Saint’s Lives and mystical treatises provide evidence of failed sadism and empowering masochism. Literary culture in the form of epics and courtly tales preserve stories of eroticised power. These exciting chapters join together to form a picture of medieval culture that is kinky in its practice and deeply psychological at its core.

Book Deleuze and Literature

Download or read book Deleuze and Literature written by Ian Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he is best known as a philosopher, Deleuze's interests were extremely far reaching - in addition to his important critiques of major philosophers like Kant, Hume and Spinoza, he also wrote extensively on literature, cinema and art. Characteristically, he didn't apply philosophy to the arts, he always tried to extract philosophy from them. Deleuze wrote widely on literature, but always with an eye to extract something new and interesting, never merely to interpret. Indeed, his most notorious slogan was 'don't ask what it means? Ask how it works?' He wrote monographs on Proust, Kafka and Sacher-Masoch. He also wrote essays on Beckett, Melville, Jarry, T.E. Lawrence, D.H. Lawrence, and Whitman. The essays collected in this volume are the first devoted solely to Deleuze's work on literature. Written by leading Deleuzian scholars the essays focus on two main questions: how does Deleuze read literary texts? And how can we read texts in a Deleuzian way? Contributors: Bruce Baugh, Ian Buchanan, Claire Colebrook, Andre Pierre Colombat, Tom Conley, Hugh Crawford, Marlene Goldman, Eugene W. Holland, Greg Lambert, John Marks, Timothy S. Murphy and Kenneth Surin

Book Venus in Fur

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  • Author : David Ives
  • Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780822225331
  • Pages : 60 pages

Download or read book Venus in Fur written by David Ives and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Thomas, a beleaguered playwright/director, is desperate to find an actress to play Vanda, the female lead in his adaptation of the classic sadomasochistic tale Venus in Fur . Into his empty audition room walks a vulgar and equally

Book Monsieur V  nus

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachilde
  • Publisher : Modern Language Association
  • Release : 2015-05-01
  • ISBN : 1603292551
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Monsieur V nus written by Rachilde and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.

Book The Myth of Women s Masochism

Download or read book The Myth of Women s Masochism written by Paula J. Caplan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally, a definitive study that debunks one of Freud's most damaging myths--that women are inherently masochistic--...offers healthier ways...to view female behavior." MS. Magazine "Concrete, convincing...sensible...revolutionary, calling for nothing short of a revision in our thinking about women..." Philadelphia Inquirer "...not a quick-fix pop psychology do-it-yourselfer but a thoughtful examination of a persistent, self-defeating myth." Chicago Tribune "...outstanding scholarly debunking of [an] extremely damaging cultural belief...it contains valuable lessons for...the mental health professions." Readings "So convincing are her arguments...that often one is left wondering how on earth such theories could ever have been taken seriously." Morning Star, London

Book Imagination in German Romanticism

Download or read book Imagination in German Romanticism written by Jeanne Riou and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In German Romanticism, the imagination is the site of the encounter between the subject and its environment; this book examines that encounter. Dealing with both literary and philosophical texts, it argues that the Romantic imagination performs a critique of rationalism. In reflecting on the fragmentary, the Romantics require the reader to both imagine and to question this as a hermeneutic process. As such, they understand writing to be an experiment in memory, both individual and cultural. This book is a study of the writings of E.T.A. Hoffmann, Novalis, Tieck and also of the utopian project of Romanticism itself. Methodologically, it is informed by what Foucault termed the archaeological approach to discourse as well as by psychoanalysis and literary theory. Examining points of contact as well of divergence between Kantian epistemology and Romantic nature philosophy, it also highlights the correspondences between literature, philosophy and science. Above all, it treats Romanticism as an experiment in the portrayal of ambivalent modern identity.

Book Vagaries of Desire  A Collection of Philosophical Essays

Download or read book Vagaries of Desire A Collection of Philosophical Essays written by Timo Airaksinen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are discussed in terms of their metaphoric and metonymic features.

Book Deleuze and Guattari s Anti Oedipus

Download or read book Deleuze and Guattari s Anti Oedipus written by Eugene W. Holland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene W. Holland provides an excellent introduction to Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus which is widely recognized as one of the most influential texts in philosophy to have appeared in the last thirty years. He lucidly presents the theoretical concerns behind Anti-Oedipus and explores with clarity the diverse influences of Marx, Freud, Nietzsche and Kant on the development of Deleuze & Guattari's thinking. He also examines the wider implications of their work in revitalizing Marxism, environmentalism, feminism and cultural studies.

Book Homemade Natural Hair Care With Essential Oils

Download or read book Homemade Natural Hair Care With Essential Oils written by Carmen Reeves and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-16 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homemade Natural Hair Care (with Essential Oils): DIY Recipes to Promote Hair Growth, Shine & Repair Learn how to treat your hair at home using organic treasures today! If you are sick and tired of the amount of toxins we are all bombarded with in commercial hair care products, which are loaded with damaging chemicals and harsh ingredients, then look no further. This book will be your ultimate guide to improving and restoring your hair's overall health, condition, growth and appearance. This book will provide you with the basic steps and ingredients that will enable you to prepare your hair care products at home, including shampoo, conditioner and deeply moisturizing hair masks. It will also help you discover a few simple steps for the most effective, nourishing and aromatic ingredient combinations in order to combat hair loss and promote growth, shine and repair. Using essential oils in your hair care recipes will evoke an enticing feast for your senses as well as add many nutritive benefits for effective hair repair. By discovering how certain ingredients contribute to the health of your hair, you will learn to tailor each recipe to treat your hair with the most nourishing formula that is most suited to your hair type, whilst indulging your senses in a deeply fulfilling mind and body experience. Why you must have this book: * This book will teach you how to make use of the powers of essential oil, herbs, and other natural ingredients to revitalize your hair, promote growth, and treat other problems such as dandruff or split ends * This book contains a variety of shampoo, conditioner and mask recipes to help combat a number of hair troubles in normal, dry and oily hair * This book will guide you on your journey to mastering the craft of homemade hair care while enjoying the creative process * You will learn how to use raw ingredients and the best combinations to achieve healthy, beautiful hair * This book will help you understand why it is essential to ditch commercial, store-bought products filled with damaging chemicals * This book will give you confidence in the freedom in experimenting with your own ingredients to create ingenious products of your own * All ingredients within this book are cruelty free and vegan to ensure none of our furry friends are harmed in the pursuit of beauty The benefits you'll receive from 'Homemade Natural Hair Care' * How to dilute essential oils and use them in optimal combinations * The wonderful benefits of many herbs, fruits and oils to use in your hair care * Which plants can help you combat your hair troubles most effectively * The importance of knowing the powerful restorative properties of many plants and essential oils * Reaping the benefits of the gorgeous, shiny, healthy hair you desire * Learning about the amazing potentials of essential oil to treat a myriad of hair problems whilst enchanting your senses Interested in learning more? Download your copy today to achieve beautiful, healthy hair!