The Mastery of Submission : : Inventions of Masochism / / John K. Noyes.
Individuals sometimes derive sexual pleasure from submission to cruel discipline. While that predilection was noted as early as the sixteenth century, masochism was not codified as a concept until 1890. According to John K. Noyes, its invention reflected a crisis in the liberal understanding of subj...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1997 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. Inventions of Masochism
- I. Beaten Women, Biology, and Technologies of Control
- 2. Reason, Passion, and Nineteenth-Century Liberalism Kraffi-Ebing and Sacher-Masoch
- 3. Technologies of Punishment, Penance, and Pleasure
- 4. Imperialist Man, Civilizing Woman, and the European Male Masochist
- 5. Narratives of Mastery, Fantasies of Failure
- 6. Beyond the Death Instinct
- 7. Disappearing and Reappearing Subjects
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index