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- Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity
- Book
- 2007
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
summary
Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been especially connected to the figure of the male body under threat of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also considers how both midcentury detective fiction (especially the work of Raymond Chandler) and contemporaneous autobiographies of male-to-female transsexuals negotiate the terms of this gendered understanding of psychopathology, thus articulating their own notions of moral value, individual autonomy, and effective agency.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. iii-iv
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- pp. ix-x
- 1. MODERN NARRATIVES OF PARANOIA
- pp. 23-58
- BIBILIOGRAPHY
- pp. 207-219
Additional Information
ISBN
9780791480878
DOI
MARC Record
OCLC
78217518
Pages
238
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No