Images of bliss : ejaculation, masculinity, meaning / Murat Aydemir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aydemir, Murat.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generative organs, Male--Philosophy.

Generative organs, Male.

Human reproduction--Philosophy.

Human reproduction.

Ejaculation--Philosophy.

Ejaculation.

Penis--Philosophy.

Penis.

Masculinity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN ; London : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Proust's narrator in Swann's Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the product of "some misplacing of my thigh." The heavy metal band Metallica used it to adorn an album cover. Beyond its biological function, semen has been applied with surprising frequency to metaphorical and narratological purposes. In Images of Bliss, Murat Aydemir undertakes an original and extensive analysis of images of male orgasm and semen. In a series of

Contents:

9. Dissimulating the Supreme Spasm: Derrida

Trance: Lucky Word: Masculinity: Desire and Hysteria: Supreme Spasm : Semen as Pharmakon: Singular Plural: The Sperm's Tail as Supplement: Closing Opening

10. Anxiety and Intimacy of Expenditure: Bataille

Hostile Expenditures between Men: Globular Droplets: Male Guinea Pigs: Intimacy of Expenditure: The Eye of the Story: Draining Masculinity: Concepts of Ejaculation

Part V. Literature

11. Misplaced Thigh: Proust

Beginnings: Adam's Rib: Jupiter's Thigh: From Wet Dream to Bad Dream

12. Gossamer Thread

"Gosh, gosh, gosh, gosh!": Natural Trail: Solitary Pleasure: Gaze: The Lilac: Silvery Trace

13. A Few Drops That Express All

Adolphe: Norpois: Men in Cubicles: Behind the Curtain with Swann: Re-searching Masculinity

Epilogue: Forcing the Issue

Color: Scale: Plane: Temporality: Part/Whole: Opposition/Entanglement: Conception/Inconceivable: Imminent/Immanent: Graphic.

The Specter Haunting Male Morphology: Othering the Body: A Comedy: The Deictic Veil and the Phallus/Penis: Every Temptation: Smile and Breast: Double-Crossing Gender

Part III. Pornography

5. Significant Discharge: The Cum Shot and Narrativity

Introducing the Cum Shot: Justine: "I can't believe you just came": The Climax of Involuntary Spasm: "I was not finished": Return and Repetition

6. Levering Ejaculation

Porn as Opera or Musical: Va(s)cillation: Abjection: Staining the Image: Hand: "Lass es gehen": Coda: Female Ejaculation

7. "Now Take One of Me As I Come": Pornographic Realities

Hard Core: Mundane Details: Reality-Effect: Sexual Theatrics: The Meaning of Moustaches: Verisimilitude: Bazzo's Escape

Part IV. Theory

8. The Suspense and Suspension of Bliss: Barthes

Connoisseur: Taking One's Pleasure: Being Taken by Bliss: The Certain Body: From Suspense to Suspension: Tumbling or Freezing Narrative: Upstaging the Father: Wandering Seeds

Introduction

Part I. History, Art

1. Semen, Blood, Stars, and Ice: Serrano and Aristotle

Blood: Squigglies and Claret: "As it were a deformed male": Why Semen Matters More: The Illustrated Aristotle, Part I: Stars: Inconceivable: Soiled White: Bataille: Graphic White: Derrida: Baroque White: Bal: The Illustrated Aristotle, Part II: Ice: The Illustrated Aristotle, Part III

Part II. Psychoanalysis

2. Image of the Vital Flow: Lacan

Noeud/Nous: The Name of the Phallus: The Story's Set-up: Graphic Concatenation: When Phallus Meets Signifiable: Bastard Offspring: The Magician and the Veil: Shame as Awkward Self-Reflexivity

3. Anamorphosis: Metamorphosis: Ambassadors

Delicious Game: Cool Men: Twin Ambassadors: Spot the Differences: Embarrassing Embrasse: Man in Black: Melancholia and Empire

4. The Parting Veil: Angel in the Flesh

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5441-7

OCLC:

476120188