...Jaime Brunton This essay analyzes The Artist Is Present , Marina Abramović's heavily mediatized 2010 performance at New York's Museum of Modern Art, through the lenses of Freudian and Deleuzian concepts of masochism. It specifically focuses on how the masochistic tendencies of this performance may...

...Kaja Silverman Copyright © 1988 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1988 The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian (Mantegna) Masochism and Male Subjectivity Kaja Silverman Perversion: Turning aside from truth or right; diversion to an improper use...

...Laura U. Marks Copyright © 1992 by The Johns Hopkins University Press 1991 Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around Me: Masochism, Militarism and the Gulf War on TV Laura U. Marks The United States’ war with Iraq, despite its rather ignominious con- clusion, produced one durable...

... of the womb, substituting itself for caesarian surgery. The woman mutilates the expanse of flesh connected to breath, to birth, to life, which comes between breasts and vagina. Here we might consider how masochism is often misconstrued as direct pleasure from pain, rather than as a complex desire for pain...

...: Flammarion, 1982 . Deleuze , Gilles . Masochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty . London: Georges Braziller, 1971 . Freud , Sigmund . The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Vols. 4 and 5 of The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud . Edited...

... maintain a mastery which enables him to deny his suf- fering while at the same time safely indulging in it.” If Notorious suggests the importance of recognizing male masochism, Mod- leski concludes, “it equally demonstrates the ease with which this masochism may be repudiated, and, most importantly...

... charged by the subversive possibility of an erotic female-to-female gaze and the paradox of masquerades that exceeded feminine excess. I found the key to a synthesis of my questions of textual strategy, psychodynamics and spectatorship in Gilles Deleuze’s Masochism: An Interpretation...

... strives to construct a theory of male subjectivity predicated on theories of masochism; although she notes that she does not mean “to erect [masochism] as the model for a radically reconstituted male subje~tivityshe explicitly takes the po- 106 sition that the complexities of male...

... masculinity, which do much more than merely reflect those shifts but rather attempt to solidify, contain or manage these new ideas of masculinity, often resulting, however, in overtly contradictory images. These images seem particularly organized around hysteria and masochism, two symptomatic...

..., bestiality, prostitution, masturba- tion, sadism, masochism, sodomy and voyeurism, do indeed afford the spectator a wide-ranging iconography of the pornographic. But is the filrn pornographic? In pornography, a fintasy of control and mastery realizes itself through the spectator’s visual...

... Walker, and Aerlyn Weissman. All except Burroughs had worked in documentary film, and all held multiple positions during the making of the film. That they also held multiple positions in relation to the ultimately lethal masochism of Maryse Holder is also certain; the press packet informs...

... . “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Screen 16 , no. 2-3 ( 1975 ): 6 –18. Silverman , Kaja . “Masochism and Subjectivity,” Framework 12 ( 1980 ): 2 –9. Stern , Lesley . “Independent Feminist Film-Making in Australia.” Australian Journal of Screen Theory 5/6 ( 1978a ): 105...

... it. On this view, the female spectator seems doomed to oscillate between masculinization and masochism, that is, between identifying with the distanced voyeur and the object of the gaze. Doane then recounts the psychoanalytic links between castration, repression, lack, desire and representation...

... on Screen, Camera, and Canvas (Routledge, 1993),the former Editor of TheatreJournal, and the editor of Mimesis, Masochism & Mime: The Politics of Theatricality in Contempo- rary French Thought (Michigan, forthcoming). Sharon Willis is an Associate Professor of French and Visual and Cultural...

... Copyright © 1994 by Indiana University Press 1994 264 Books Received Male Masochism: Modern Revisions of the Story of Love by Carol Siegel. Indiana University Press, 1995. $29.95. Picturing Modernism: Moholy Nagy and Photography in Weimar Germany...

... exclude the female spectator from the analysis. However, Freud does propose a number of scenarios which purport to describe female sub• jectivity.Doane identifiesthree: "scenarios focusingon masochism ("A Child is Being Beaten paranoia ("A Case of Paranoia Running Counter to the Psychoanalytic Theory...

... the aggression of her growing indifference and boredom with her male lead. While his wish for commemorative mutilation points to an underlying masochism, her refusal to attribute significance to the event or represent it romantically indicates quite the opposite desire — plea- sure in cruelty...

... Power and Domestic Leisure and PhilipSimpson's (ed.)Parents Talking Television. No.16; pp. 169-171. Silverman, Kaja Masochism and Male Subjectivity. No.17; pp. 31-66. Smith, Paul Vas. No.17; pp. 89-111. Spigel, Lynn Installing the Television Set: Popular Discourseson Televisionand...

... a cultural process of determination that incorporates fun- damental interpretations of biological differences. I am therefore in- terested in how such formations as masochism and fetishism might have distinctly different nuances for males and females even though aspects...

... Press, 1986. Deleuze, Gilles. Masochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty. Trans- lated by Jean McNeil. New York: Braziller, 1971. -. Foucault. Translated by Sean Hand. Minneapolis: University of Min- nesota Press, 1986. Deleuze, Gilles, and FClix Guattari. Anti-Oedipus...