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Images of bliss ejaculation, masculinity, meaning

Title: Images of bliss [electronic resource] : ejaculation, masculinity, meaning / Murat Aydemir.
Author: Aydemir, Murat.
Publication: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

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1 online resource (xxv, 334 p.) : ill.

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Images of bliss (Online)

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Images of bliss (Online)

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-328) and index.

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Contents

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
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
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.

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