Download or read book A taste for pain masochism and female sexuality written by Maria Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A taste for pain Den frygtelige sandhed engl On masochism and female sexuality written by Maria Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rereading Female Masochism written by Estelle Noonan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the importance of female heterosexual masochism as a site for critical and cultural innovation in the contemporary understanding of women's sexuality. Visiting the dominant historical approaches to conceptualizing female masochism in literature, sexology, and psychoanalysis, it explores how these approaches have shaped scholarly and popular understandings not only of female masochism, but of female heterosexuality more generally. Noonan fuses textual analysis with sexual-scientific insight in careful rereadings of Gaitskill, Shainberg, Jelinek, Ogawa, and James' masochistic heroines for multiplicity and incongruity, illustrating a flexible and innovative scholarly approach to the interpretation of complex female heterosexuality. Historically, feminism has responded to the paradoxes of female masochism -- its unique coupling of pleasure with pain, voluntarity with submission, and liberation with constraint -- as a challenge best met by steady and singular refinement of its principles. In so doing, this book argues, feminism has missed an outstanding opportunity to theorize not only female masochism, but female heterosexuality overall as a multivalent phenomenon: complex, ambivalent, and frequently in defiance of any singular feminist approach to sexual pleasure or pain. Noonan remedies this critical lacuna by unveiling female masochism's historic and contemporary value for the shaping of feminist thought. The book offers a geneaology of women's masochism as a distinctly gendered phenomenon, tracing the origins of masochism as a theoretical and clinical construct describing perverse masculinity, and exploring the historic impact of this theorization upon feminist approaches not only to female masochism, but to female sexuality as a whole. This book reveals the capacity of the female masochist to demonstrate multiplicity as well as personal and political ambiguity in women's sexual practices.
Download or read book Masochism and the Self written by Roy F. Baumeister and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an integrative theory firmly grounded in current psychology of the self, and offers a fresh, compelling account of one of psychology's most enigmatic behavior patterns. Professor Baumeister provides comprehensive coverage of historical and cross-cultural theories and empirical data on masochism and presents recent, original data drawn from a large data set of anonymous masochistic scripts of fantasies and favorite experiences. Drawn from the latest social psychological research and theories, Professor Baumeister returns the emphasis to the original and proto-typical form of masochism -- sexual masochism - - and explains these phenomena as a means of releasing the individual from the burden of self-awareness. It is the first volume to present a psychological theory compatible with the mounting evidence that most masochists are not mentally ill nor does masochism derives from sadism. Instead, Professor Baumeister finds that masochism emerges as an escapist response to the problematic nature of selfhood and he attempts to foster an understanding of sexual masochism that emphasizes both "escape from self" and "construction of meaning" hypotheses. The book is directed at all those interested in the self and identity in paradoxical behavior patterns and in the construction of meaning, presenting specific clinical recommendations.
Download or read book A Taste for Pain written by Maria Marcus and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essential Papers on Masochism written by Margaret Ann Hanly and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology of essays examining the nature and practice of sexual masochism The contested psychoanalytic concept of masochism has served to open up pathways into less-explored regions of the human mind and behavior. Here, rituals of pain and sexual abusiveness prevail, and sometimes gruesome details of unconscious fantasies are constructed out of psychological pain, desperate need, and sexually excited, self- destructive violence. In this significant addition to the Essential Papers in Psychoanalysis series, Margaret Ann Fitzpatrick Hanly presents an anthology of the most outstanding writings in the psychoanalytic study of masochism. In bringing these essays together, Dr. Fitzpatrick Hanly expertly combines classic and contemporary theories by the most respected scholars in the field to create a varied and integrated volume. This collection features papers by S. Nacht, R. Loewenstein, Victor Smirnoff, Sigmund Freud, Jacques Laplanche, Robert Bak, Leonard Shengold, K. Novick, J. Novick, S. Coen, Margaret Brenman, Esther Menaker, S. Lorand, M. Balint, Bernhard Berliner, Charles Brenner, Helene Deutsch, Annie Reich, Marie Bonaparte, Jessica Benjamin, S.L. Olinick, Arnold Modell, Betty Joseph, and Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel.
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
Download or read book Female Masochism in Film written by Ruth McPhee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theoretically and representationally, responses to heterosexual female masochism have ranged from neglect in theories that focus predominantly or only upon masochistic sexuality within male subjects, to condemnation from feminists who regard it as an inverted expression of patriarchal control rather than a legitimate form of female desire. It has commonly been understood as a passive form of sexuality, thus ignoring the potential for activity and agency that the masochistic position may involve, which underpins the crucial argument that female masochism can be conceived as enquiring ethical activity. Taking as its subject the works of Jane Campion, Catherine Breillat, Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier as well as the films Secretary (Steven Shainberg), Dans Ma Peau (Marina de Van), Red Road (Andrea Arnold, 2006) Amer (Hélène Cattat and Bruno Forzani), and Sleeping Beauty (Julia Leigh), Female Masochism in Film avoids these reductive and simplistic approaches by focusing on the ambivalences and intricacies of this type of sexuality and subjectivity. Using the philosophical writings of Kristeva, Irigaray, Lacan, Scarry, and Bataille, McPhee argues that masochism cannot and should not be considered aside from its ethical and intersubjective implications, and furthermore, that the aesthetic tendencies emerging across these films - obscenity, extremity, confrontation and a transgressive, ambiguous form of beauty - are strongly related to these implications. Ultimately, this complex and novel work calls upon the spectator and the theorist to reconsider normative ideas about desire, corporeality, fantasy and suffering.
Download or read book The Myth of Women s Masochism written by Paula J. Caplan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after publication in 1985, The Myth of Women's Masochism became one of the most influential works in women's psychology. Paula Caplan rejects the accepted wisdom that women enjoy pain and abuse, and argues that, on the contrary, much of the pain women endure is to avoid further, or worse, treatment. Women stay with abusive husbands in order, for instance, to protect themselves and their children from the greater suffering of poverty. She makes the point that the quintessentially feminine traits of nurturing, patience, and self-denial are not pathological, as is often stated. Her book confronts the myth of women's masochism as it affects every aspect of women's lives; it challenges psychiatry to change the way it percieves women; and it offers women a positive new view of themselves. In the new preface to this edition, Paula Caplan regrets that most of the data still apply, and speculates why that is. She also provides an update on the views of the American Psychiatric Association on women's masochism, theerby revealing much about the condition of women in our civilization. The Myth of Women's Masochism is likely to remain relevant for some time, a key text for women's studies courses and a source of confidence for women themselves.
Download or read book Anatomy of Masochism written by June Rathbone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are dominance and submission inevitable in human relationships? Believing that sadomasochism is becoming an ever more obtrusive phenomenon in developed countries, the author surveyed 48 self-declared sadomasochists (43 male, 5 female) and 35 controls (26 male, 9 female) in an effort to elicit information on early family relationships, morale, and sexual behavior and fantasy; she also looks at the philosophy of masochism and its damaging effects.
Download or read book Masochism in Sex and Society written by Theodor Reik and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hurts So Good written by Leigh Cowart and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of why people all over the world love to engage in pain on purpose--from dominatrices, religious ascetics, and ultramarathoners to ballerinas, icy ocean bathers, and sideshow performers Masochism is sexy, human, reviled, worshipped, and can be delightfully bizarre. Deliberate and consensual pain has been with us for millennia, encompassing everyone from Black Plague flagellants to ballerinas dancing on broken bones to competitive eaters choking down hot peppers while they cry. Masochism is a part of us. It lives inside workaholics, tattoo enthusiasts, and all manner of garden variety pain-seekers. At its core, masochism is about feeling bad, then better--a phenomenon that is long overdue for a heartfelt and hilarious investigation. And Leigh Cowart would know: they are not just a researcher and science writer--they're an inveterate, high-sensation seeking masochist. And they have a few questions: Why do people engage in masochism? What are the benefits and the costs? And what does masochism have to say about the human experience? By participating in many of these activities themselves, and through conversations with psychologists, fellow scientists, and people who seek pain for pleasure, Cowart unveils how our minds and bodies find meaning and relief in pain--a quirk in our programming that drives discipline and innovation even as it threatens to swallow us whole.
Download or read book Masochistic Delights written by Oshiv Nihilist and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Masochistic Delights by Oshiv Nihilist An Erotica that depicts the life of a fictional character her name is Ayaano . Ayaano had a rough childhood, being born as a girl was not less than a curse for her . She got molested at the age of 10, not just that she was even raped twice and such series of unspoken events drove her to a point of life where she became a sex worker. Everything so far made her really very vulnerable untill one day she realised that her miseries won't end ever therefore she formed a optimistic outlook towards everything cause of which she began to find comfort in her sufferings, peace in her Chaos, this process was so liberating for her that she now started to feel pleasure in pain and became a self claimed masochist..why ? Well who is more optimistic than a masochist. In This book Ayaano will share few glimpses from her life, some transforming incidents which were unheard untill now. Her perception to see everything is so fascinating you'll get to find that in first Six chapters and the last chapter is a little peek from her life after she's married and enslaved by an abusive husband . Detail about her post married life will be published in the second edition. Enjoy
Download or read book The Mastery of Submission written by John K. Noyes and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature written by Marianne Noble and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For generations, critics have noticed in nineteenth-century American women's sentimentality a streak of masochism, but their discussions of it have over-simplified its complex relationship to women's power. Marianne Noble argues that tropes of eroticized domination in sentimental literature must be recognized for what they were: a double-edged sword of both oppression and empowerment. She begins by exploring the cultural forces that came together to create this ideology of desire, particularly Protestant discourses relating suffering to love and middle-class discourses of "true womanhood." She goes on to demonstrate how sentimental literature takes advantage of the expressive power in the convergence of these two discourses to imagine women's romantic desire. Therefore, in sentimental literature, images of eroticized domination are not antithetical to female pleasure but rather can be constitutive of it. The book, however, does not simply celebrate that fact. In readings of Warner's The Wide Wide World, Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Dickinson's sentimental poetry, it addresses the complex benefits and costs of nineteenth-century women's literary masochism. Ultimately it shows how these authors both exploited and were shaped by this discursive practice. The Masochistic Pleasures of Sentimental Literature exemplifies new trends in "Third Wave" feminist scholarship, presenting cultural and historical research informed by clear, lucid discussions of psychoanalytic and literary theory. It demonstrates that contemporary theories of masochism--including those of Deleuze, Bataille, Kristeva, Benjamin, Bersani, Noyes, Mansfield--are more relevant and comprehensible when considered in relation to sentimental literature.
Download or read book Masochism of M written by Janice Collins and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW! ILLUSTRATED! Welcome to M's sultry world, a world of dominance, submission, and pain. Endure the training of a voluntary sex slave whose body is claimed through leather and chains, while her heart is claimed through love. From the college classroom, to the wild riverside, to being given to both sexes at the Mansion, Masochism of M kicks wide the door to the forbidden chamber of erotic enlightenment of a loving and beloved sexually submissive slave. Do not delude yourself that you are immune. Each of us carries masochism or sadism within us to varying degrees; to what degree are you? Admit it; the thought of BDSM makes your hands sweat and your heart race. You're a proverbial moth to the flame. Why else would you be here? I am M, and though my chosen lifestyle is for neither the faint-of-heart nor an easy pathway for others, I make no apologies. I will share what truly set me free. Masochism of M is my true memoir; I have changed only the names and locations to protect the innocent. The blistering sexual tortures chronicled herein are but a tantalizing taste of the thousands of dark BDSM journeys faithfully recorded in my twenty-year diary. I am lucky to belong to my Owner, and grateful he deems to make me his through the ecstasy of the lash. Possessor of all that I am he ultimately takes great care with me as one would a precious Ming vase. Unrelentingly he has borne me to the highest highs, and for this, I am eternally grateful. To reveal to the uninitiated the unbreakable bond forged between Master and slave is perhaps this memoir's greatest mission. It is a glorious thing, submission. Take my hand now as I slip it into my restraint. Sweat with me; I will help you understand.
Download or read book The Representation of Masochism and Queer Desire in Film and Literature written by B. Mennel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining masochism as 'literary perversion', this book probes the productivity of masochistic aesthetics in the literature of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch and contemporary queer films, analysing radical accounts of desire, gender, and sexuality.
