The Explanation For Everything

Essays on Sexual Subjectivity

By:

Paul Morrison

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Series:

Sexual Cultures

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"The claim 'I'm straight' is the psychosexual analogue of 'The check is in the mail': if you need to say it, your credit or creditability is already in doubt." So begins Paul Morrison's dazzling polemic, which takes as its point of departure Foucault's famous remark that sex is "the explanation for everything." Combining psychoanalytic, literary, and queer theory, seeks to account for the explanatory power attributed to homosexuality, and its relationship to compulsory heterosexuality. In the process, Morrison presents a scathing indictment of psychoanalysis and its impact on the study of sexuality. In bold but graceful leaps, Morrison applies his critique to a diversity of examples: subjectivity in Oscar Wilde, the cultural construction and reception of AIDS, the work of Robert Mapplethorpe, the practice of bodybuilding, and the contemporary reception of the sexual politics of fascism. Analytical, witty and astute, will challenge and amuse, establishing Paul Morrison as one of our most exciting cultural critics.

Author Biography:

Paul Morrison is Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University. He is the author of The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Paul de Man.

Release date NZ

February 1st, 2002

Author

Paul Morrison

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

205

Series

Sexual Cultures

Dimensions

3895x5830x14

ISBN-13

9780814756744

Product ID

6918226

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