James Joyce & the Perverse Ideal

Studies in Major Literary Authors Outstanding Dissertations......Page 3
James Joyce and The Perverese Ideal......Page 2
Contents......Page 7
Abbreviations......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 9
lntroduction......Page 10
CHAPTER ONE The Cracked Looking-Glass......Page 31
CULTURAL SPECIFICITY AND THE DEVELOPMENTAL APPROACH......Page 54
THE JOYCEAN OBJECT OF DESIRE......Page 56
THE PROHIBITION......Page 68
Fathers......Page 69
Beating......Page 71
The Debate......Page 72
Beating in Portrait......Page 75
The Church......Page 76
Homosocial Bullying: Beating by Older Students......Page 80
Shauns Bullying Shems......Page 82
THE SUBALTERN POSITION: METAPHORICAL RELATIONS OF PARENT AND CHILD......Page 83
THE FEMININE SOURCES OF PROHIBITION......Page 86
The Nanny......Page 87
The Nymph......Page 88
The Mother......Page 92
PITY AND LOVE AS DESEXUALIZING......Page 94
THE SUPEREGO......Page 96
THE IDEAL EGO......Page 101
THE PERVERSE PRECEDENT......Page 106
MASTURBATION......Page 111
Whipping Causes a Sexual Reaction......Page 118
FIXATION......Page 120
THE UBIQUITY OF THE FLAGELLANT MESSAGE: BOYS' MAGAZINES, PORNOGRAPHY, NEWSPAPERS AND ADVERTISEMENTS......Page 121
COWBOYS AND INDIANS......Page 127
OBSESSION AND REPETITION: CONJURING......Page 129
MAGICAL OMNIPOTENCE......Page 136
THE FETISH (FACTICIUS: MADE BY ART)......Page 139
TRANSVESTISM......Page 143
THE SELF ABUSE OF VISIONARIES......Page 151
A TYPE OF ART THAT IS MASTURBATORY......Page 152
CONFLICT AND FLUCTUATION IN THE DIVIDED SELF......Page 160
THE PERVERSE USE OF CORPORAL PUNISHMENT......Page 162
THE STAGING OF THE RITUAL......Page 163
DRAMATIS PERSONAE......Page 166
The Beater as Father......Page 169
The Beater as Mother......Page 170
MECHANICAL / MEIBOMIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF MASOCHISM......Page 172
ANAL FIXATION......Page 174
RUMP PRESENTATION......Page 176
ACTIVE / PASSIVE SUBJECTION......Page 178
THE SEXUALIZATION OF SHAME......Page 180
Mechanical Explanations of Shame......Page 181
The Politics of Looking......Page 182
Becoming Buttocks......Page 184
Becoming Object......Page 186
Becoming an Object of Desire......Page 188
All for the Female Gaze......Page 189
The Masochist's Appropriation of Shame......Page 191
Fluctuations between Shame and Pride......Page 192
THE PARODY OF SHAME......Page 193
ROMANTIC LOVE AND SEXUAL SERVITUDE......Page 196
TRANSVESTISM......Page 199
SELF-NEGATION......Page 202
Disgust......Page 205
Rejection of Masculinity......Page 206
CHAPTER FIVE The Cuckold A Logician of Consequences......Page 210
CONCLUSION The Emperor's New Clothes......Page 228
INTRODUCTION......Page 232
CHAPTER ONE: THE CRACI(ED LOOKING-GLASS......Page 233
CHAPTER TWO: DAEDALUS DESEXUALIZED......Page 235
CHAPTER THREE: ICARUS RESEXUALIZED......Page 237
CHAPTER FOUR: A DARKER PASSION......Page 241
CHAPTER FIVE: THE CUCKOLD......Page 243
PRIMARY SOURCES......Page 246
JOYCE CRITICISM......Page 247
OTHER SOURCES......Page 254