... This chapter begins with the discussion of a popular thesis that sexual repression resulted in impotence in the Maoist period. Leaving aside the relationship between impotence and sexual repression, this thesis leads to the discussion of whether and why sexual desire was repressed under...

... psyche drives sexuality repression Unconscious dreamwork ego and libido overdetermination ...

... sexual repression danwei (work unit) hukou (household registration) romantic love Maoism ...

... Lecture 16, “Psychoanalysis and Freud,” begins with a brief overview of Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, followed by his often revolutionary contributions to the theories of subjectivity and psychic life, sexuality, repression and the Unconscious, interpretation of dreamwork...

.... men’s medicine yijing (nocturnal emission) reproduction castration moral symptomatology This chapter begins with the discussion of a popular thesis that sexual repression resulted in impotence in the Maoist period. Leaving aside the relationship between impotence and sexual repression...

... morality nihilism Übermensch will to power Lecture 16, “Psychoanalysis and Freud,” begins with a brief overview of Sigmund Freud and the history of psychoanalysis, followed by his often revolutionary contributions to the theories of subjectivity and psychic life, sexuality, repression...

... of subjectivity and psychic life, sexuality, repression and the Unconscious, interpretation of dreamwork, and his efforts to extend the “talking cure” to larger social models. psyche drives sexuality repression Unconscious dreamwork ego and libido overdetermination <italic>Phenomenology...

... desire, many men chose to regulate that desire by preserving seminal essence and adopting a moderate attitude toward sex. Instead of repressing sexual desire, then, yangsheng can be seen as a practice of its ethical regulation. It is therefore a technique of self-mastery, a way to form an ethical self...

...Subjects of Early America This chapter revises an old question: Why do early Americanists say that the Puritans weren’t repressed? And what would be at stake if they were? The answer to the second question, it suggests, is happiness. To address the first, it examines a poem, Edward Johnson’s...

... Black forms of remembering the colony have included commemoration, forgetting, repression, appropriation, and instrumentalization. Canonical African texts construct the colony as a site of loss—of both the authentic self and sovereignty. Colonial violence consisted in everyday aggressions...

... to the rise of sexual desire, many men chose to regulate that desire by preserving seminal essence and adopting a moderate attitude toward sex. Instead of repressing sexual desire, then, yangsheng can be seen as a practice of its ethical regulation. It is therefore a technique of self-mastery, a way to form...

... that policing and repression and legal definitions of what were or were not acceptable pornographic images would lead feminism away from its earlier calls for liberation and experimentation and towards a feminism that saw men as by definition violent and women as needing to be protected by the (then very...

... structures that impose a binary division between localized change and global revolution and between forms of identity based on racial or sexual difference and class-based identities. There is a danger in contemporary left theory of abandoning a close understanding of the conditions that lead people to demand...

..., which addressed forms of oppression based on gender, sexuality, race, and class. social labor V. I. Lenin revolution Jürgen Habermas Axel Honneth This chapter examines the problematic dependence of social labor on a conventional model of autonomous subjectivity, which can effectively...

... of the antipornography position, “The Feminist Sex Wars: Retrenchment Versus Transformation.” Second, several of many literary reviews from this period of Sturm and Drang. My piece about David Garnett’s human-to-animal fables was meant to sneak up on more unstable ideas of sexuality than the prevailing feminist...

... art. Born to “respectable” black elites in suburban New Jersey circa World War II, Liliane Lincoln grows to become an avant-garde performance artist, portraitist, sculptor, feminist, sexual adventurer, cosmopolitan world wanderer, and faithful psychoanalysand. Her peculiar madness—the product of black...

... in 2008, the UPP has aimed to confront armed criminal groups in the favela, but it quickly came to represent a new model of intensified social control and repression in Rio. Despite the existence of a war on drugs and control of territories as a way to win the support of the whole city with an allusion...