Finding Her True Self Alison Bechdel wrote Fun Home as a memoir so that people understood the impact her father had on her. She went into great detail in this memoir about her childhood and moments after her father’s death. Which she claims her dad was a suicidal. During the memoir, she describes her relationship with her father. All issues, lessons, and arguments she had with her father are really significant to her. She uses her relationship with her father as the main point in the memoir.
In the socially stagnant post-war United States of the early 1950's, Mary Maloney is content with the routine she has established for herself as a homemaker. She spends each day anticipating the return of her husband, police officer Patrick Maloney. In this waiting period, she tidies up his house, prepares his food, and periodically glances at the clock until he arrives. For Mary Maloney, her husband's return is "always the most blissful time of day" (Dahl 24). Patrick's presence completes Mary
Many of Manto’s stories derive conflict from one source- the partition of India. In his stories, Manto explores the theme of communal conflict and many of his characters face extreme situations of ruthlessness, which are generally expressed through murder, rape or other forms of violent conduct. Women are most of the times the victims of the onslaught of communalist madness that Manto brings to the fore but there are times when they rise up against the hypocrisy of gender beliefs and show defiance
Denise Uyehara the playwright and actress performed a solo piece “Hello Sex Kitty” that delved into the issues of “sexuality, dating, domestic violence, and the AIDS epidemic by portraying several vastly different caricatures of Asian women and men” (Lee 173). She relates these issues to the female identity through a comedic, sexual, and realism performance. Denise Uyehara broke down the fourth wall and included audience participation in her performance in order to further involve the audience in
Ones upbringing greatly affects their levels of both individuality and independence later in life. In Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora illustrates the importance of relationships throughout ones’ life. Through two very different relationships with two very different people, Janie’s self can be determined. When learning about individuality, it is a bare essential to look at their background. Janie’s and my individuality and independence are influenced by both our surroundings
Sigmund Freud began his private psychoanalytic practice near the end of the 19th century in Austria. Freud's theories of the unconscious, the libido, the oedipus-complex, psychotheropy, the defense mechanisms, etc have influenced disciplines typically removed from psychology. The goal of classical psychoanalysis is to use various methods of analysis, such as dream analysis or the analysis of a given parapraxis (a error that can reveal itself through mispoken, misread, or incorrectly written words
a great friend who brings out the best in his companion Charlie, he experiences an alienation due to his homosexuality. Patrick’s alienation allows him to take his place in the symbolic order in that of a female's. The way Lacan uses the term “phallus” shows how it is possible for Patrick to be positioned as a female in the symbolic order so when he discusses male and female it is not exclusively pertaining to the idea of
The Tragedy of Alcibiades in Plato's Symposium In Symposium, a selection from The Dialogues of Plato, Plato uses historical allusions to demonstrate Alcibiades’ frustration with both social expectations for the phallus and his inability to meet these expectations. Alcibiades’ inability to have a productive sexual relationship effectively castrates him and demonstrates the impotence caused by an overemphasis on eroticism. The tragedy of Alcibiades is that he realizes he is unable to gain virtue
The theories of Jacques Lacan give explanation and intention to the narrator’s actions throughout the novel “Surfacing”. Although Margaret Atwood may not have had any knowledge of the French psychoanalyst’s philosophies, I feel that both were making inferences on behavior and psychology and that the two undeniably synchronize with each other. I will first identify the complex philosophies of Jacques Lacan and then demonstrate how the narrator falls outside of Lacan’s view of society and how this
statuses similar to each other” (Lorber 57). To divide the sexs, and therefore gender, society puts them into masculine and feminine categories. The phallus being the underlying symbol of masculinity; there is great emphasis on the phallus and or lack thereof. If there is a working phallus at birth the child could be considered a male, if the phallus is too small or unresponsive it then may be considered a female. Then the action and emotions of the sexs are also gendered. Masculinity and Femininity
The giant Phallus on its own is already a highly sensitive and compromising subject which violate the social norms. This lies on their intentions to give humiliation to FSB and increase the public awareness of their unchecked powers. Besides, artist’s application of space consolidates their protest to one step further. Viona’s decision to paint a giant phallus on the St. Petersburg Litnyny Bridge, a drawbridge in Russia, serves as adjuvant
The sexual cult of Dionysus/ Bacchus created festivals for the people; supplying an unending rivalry for the underlying evil spiritual forces to use; these cults or festivals, (leading into orgies), evolved as an immense part of Pan’s creation. Mysteriously, this cult predates Greek civilization and its origination persists of unknown beginnings; dating longer than the Mycenaean culture early development that transpired on the mainland of Greece during 1600-1100 B.C. Fig. 31. Pan and Bacchus/
Throughout the scene the men succumb to all Hamlet’s outlandish ideas and statement as if their goal is strictly to please Hamlet by showing their keenness to him and his sword. The sword symbolizes a significant role when compared to Lacan’s Phallus. Jaques Lacan phallus is a psychoanalytic theory that propose the male genital organ challenges the importance of the imaginary privileged interpretation versus the symbolic and the realistic biological purpose the penis
color” (O’Connor 196) at the thought of being separated from her phallus. Once her leg is off Manley “pushed her down” and refuses to return the prosthetic to her causing Hulga to be “entirely dependent on him” (O’Connor 197). He further reveals himself to not be a bible salesman but a man who steals from women for fun. Hulga’s loneliness and vulnerability to the attention from Pointer unfortunately leaves her stranded and without her phallus in the barn’s
A common complaint with Kathy Acker's work, particularly with Blood and Guts in High School, is that it is anti-male. This criticism, while valid, neglects to understand the methodology used in order to create a text in which patriarchal norms are no longer rampant. Despite its purpose of removing a gendered voice, postmodern fiction still contains elements of an authority which is predominately white and male. Acker changes this connotation by creating a “female text” in which women's bodies and
Literature review. The media has changed significantly over the past decades. Technology has modified our abilities to expand our communication network, and it allows companies to spread their commercials over many different continents. Research done by Roberts (1993) shows that adolescent and children are often very influenced by media that involves sexual or violent conduct. This research is based on media involving children and adolescents, however this does not eliminate the effect media has
“having” and the female “being” the phallus. These two differences determine the relations between the sexes and the phallus governs the male/female cultural roles. Alfar adds that males have power and she states that: “Male dominance and female obedience and passivity become naturalized through this symbolic bifurcation” (183). Consequently, according to Lacanian theory, the phallus for males represent power, authority, and desire while for females the phallus signifies lack of power and agency (Alfar
My entire conscience was focused on the phallus fucking my bottom, its gentle push and pull movement stimulating nerves deep within me, nudging me slowly to the very brink of climax. In unison, the mushrooms buried themselves in me while the nipple caps squeezed the tender flesh. Another racking orgasm shot through me and I screamed around the mushroom, back arching involuntarily as the mushrooms fucked my helpless body. After two more orgasms ripped through me, I was being held only by the mushroom
Psychoanalytical theorists after Freud was Jacques Lacan. In his text, “The Signification of the Phallus,” asserts that the idea of both sexes are based on the male “being” and the female “having” the phallus, and these two differences determine the relations between the sexes while also bringing them together. For Lacan, the phallus for males represents power, authority, and desire while for females the phallus signifies lack of power and agency (182). Another important text by Lacan is “The Agency of
system of language, which always precedes the individual and is centered on the phallus. Cixous built upon the idea that the woman is excluded from Lacan’s Symbolic and she never enters it, therefore a woman’s lived experience can never be expressed through the language which gives meanings that are phallic in nature. Moreover, since the woman does not exist inside the symbolic, she is less controlled by the phallus. Cixous argues that since the woman always occupies a position of otherness and does