top five index headlines from the book homosexual narcissim, written in 1922:
scatalogic fancies
epileptic pedastry
pollution symbolism
craving for tenderness
water closet symbolism.
now back to the more serious work:
i hold the view that every great creative work has been and is being acheived through regressions... 296
the path to homosexuality leads over self through narcissism 47
all huis love is a love centered exculsively on self. yet all cultural prgofess consists of the sublimation of self love in social love...291
from homosexual nerousis, 1922, Emerson Books, by Stokel. (Translated and Reprinted in 1950)
the heritage of adolescent sexuality, narcissism and its relation to homosex or same gendered sexuality is clear in post Freudian discourses, and has been picked up by ex gay, or xian disciplined ministries--the closest you see to these sentiments comes from Dobson, et al--and the audience of Chesney and Dobson have a clear overlap.
...a masculine subject position was perceived (by Butler) as a rejection of a feminine subject position in unconscious terms...she also attempted to demonstrate the mutual dependence and contradictions of the categories of sex and gender thru a continuous process of acting, speaking, doing...Bodies that matter sought to separate understandings of perfomitvity from simple notions of theatricality and further more argued that performative acts were not nessc. subversive... 182
Cultures of Masculinity, Tim Edwards, 2006.
I do not think that Chesney is political, and that he is not subversive, his sales records, and his lack of controversy, his smoothness (insert discussion of texture) makes him slippery, his absorption, of both masculine and feminine subject positioning means that he can be all things to all people--he can be middle aged and adolescent, butch and femme, gay and straight, etc--this kind of sexuality is ubiqtious among those who reach fame thru rock and roll, but it is rare in country, and the sort of mechanistic discourses, that are not disrupting is unheard of--being post queer and post gender. means that the acting, speaking and doing are not deliberate acts of positioned rebellion, but a polymorphus desire to please every audience/subcultural segment that he can find out...
the new macho image of the gay man as it emerged in the 1970s contested this strategy of marginalization of the homosexual , and thus disrupted the definition of the masculine by interograting its idelogical assumptions and by demonstrating the performatiev nature of gender subjectivity...
127
performance anxiety, from producing masculinty, by David Beach Sinder, 1998
by not being butch but still getting pussy, by being butch, but still getting cock, by selling a million records, by making himself a subject of an almost universal gaze--a searchlight not a flashlight, by not being gay or straight or any of the taxonomic categories of sexualised other, but asorbing a floating signfi9fer, or series of sigifers, it is not disruptive, it is the difference b /w disruption and absorbtion, b/w polyglossia and monoglossia...
I think it would be interesting, to hypothesized that not only masculinity and femininity, but in addition effimeinncy, butchness, femmeness and probably some other superficially related terms, might equally turn out to represent independent variables... 16
EKS, Gosh Boy George, You Must be Awfully Secure in Yr Masculinity, from constructing masculintiy, routledge, 1995
If sexual behavior is more then just a conjunction of organs, if it is always shaped by the particular system within which it functions and if it is always shaped by the paticular system with which it functions and if it always includes a mix of socially defined feelings, meaning and behavior, just as historically positive and constructed as identity....
JN KAtz, A queer World, Edited Marin Judermean, New York Press
all shall be well all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well julian of norwich
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