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Sublime Surrender - Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siecle (Paperback, New)
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Sublime Surrender - Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siecle (Paperback, New)
Series: Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the
Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in
the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body,
he defined a recurring motif of the second half of the nineteenth
century, according to Suzanne R. Stewart. Directing her attention
to the voice of the shriveled male body at beauty's feet, she
investigates the discourse by and about men that took hold in the
German-speaking world between 1870 and 1940 and that articulated
masculinity as and through its own marginalization. Male masochism,
she suggests, was a rhetorical strategy through which men asserted
their cultural and political authority paradoxically by embracing
the notion that they were (and always had been) wounded and
suffering. Stewart demonstrates and develops her contentions
through close readings of the work of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch,
Richard Wagner, and Sigmund Freud, in each case showing that the
very act through which men sacrificed themselves to women comprised
the essence of the new male subject "deeply penetrated by relations
of political and sexual power." Masochistic scenarios, whether in
literature, music, the visual arts, or medicalized diagnoses of the
fin-de-siecle malaise, stage the male as one who submits, as
Stewart explains, "to an aestheticized and eroticized gaze and
voice."
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