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... of masculine identity. The important question here is why a sense of personal inadequacy is so central to one’s alle- giance to nationalism, a sense of failure that is confirmed and reenacted on a literary level as a masculinity plagued with masochism...

... part I of the story ends. In part 2, the young protagonist reaches the sadistic jouissance of assassi- nation but in the end returns to the masturbatory (self-inflicted) masochism of suicide. At the moment of his final orgasm...

... in their No troupes. positions 10:2 Fall 2002 440 Shortly after finishing The Ego and the Id, Freud coined the term moral masochism to describe a perversion in which the ego reaps erotic gratifi- cation from...

...- tions of psyche and subject obliquely. The essay raises for consideration a general or historical dynamic in which masochism became the preferred fic- tional expression of what was held to be an inadequate national masculinity. In the early...

... is a member of the positions editorial collective. Ka-Fai Yau, a Ph.D. candidate in comparative literature at Stanford Universality, is the author of “Spacing and Timing: Contracts and Mise-en-Scène in Fiction by von Sacher-Masoch...

... sufficient knowledge and patience, can the theoretic framework itself be reworked in a more adequate fashion, which is to say in a historical vein? There is much overtly analytic lan- guage here, the fetish and moral masochism, trauma and superego...

..., body art from postsocialist China offers an eerily subversive mirror to the socialist hero. If masochism always entails a neutralization of the juridical order by means of its parodic exaggeration, 7 then body art achieves a parodic distortion of the socialist revolutionary order through...

... psychoanalytic theory, the mise-­en-­scène of sado-­masochism (different from the erotic practice) has sometimes been privileged to dramatize these improbable reversals of power. My reading of the ideological responses on the part of Japanese...

... The unreliability of Jôji as a narra- tor also informs Ito’s reading of the novel as a study in male masochism.12 Ito argues that while Jôji maintains the illusion of submission, he remains in control of their relationship because Naomi is forced to rely...

... 556 debasement. That is, it raises what Freud called “the economic problem of masochism,” a problem which the rational-choice perversion theory of Elster and the “dissonance reduction” model seems unable to approach save...

... and masochism, and of short releases and long accu- mulations of ressentiment. In these nationalist cycles of ups and downs the only legitimate actor is the naturalized subject called nation, which, Wu reminds us, is based on hereditarian principles...

... of any single, ordering principle of existence and/or origin, ending with, Cornyetz Amorphous Identities, Disavowed History 595 “Do you understand the difference between masturbation and masochism?” Musingthat unlike the masturbator...

...-subject. Yet no such prespecular, nontraumatized national subject can exist. With this hope of normalcy ever operative, nationalists and others — who, tellingly, often speak of Japanese masochism in the face of American domi...

... the theater if the intensity of the images became unbearable. And indeed, explicit scenes of sadistic emotional and physical torture, blatant cruelty to animals, masoch- istic self-mutilation (via fishhook insertions), and humiliating subordination...

...- larly Chinese brand of cultural malaise that dooms the body to a perennial state of pathology and suffering.6 As Jing Tsu has demonstrated, once this degrading image was internalized, a kind of male masochism resulted that shaped the new...

... that Fassbinder’s masochism exemplifies) become an impossibility, by consider- ing a local and history-specific context of Korean cinema. To assess the pos- positions 16:3  Winter 2008 668 sibility of radical deconstruction...

..., as they confronted the audience in urban space. Simply put, their loss of indi- viduality was achieved within a complex matrix of secular reality. Contradictory as it may sound, Zero Jigen’s brand of masochism was psy- chological, not corporeal: shame...

...: Gender, Genre, and Excess,” Film Quarterly 44, no. 4 (1991): 10. In “Power, Pleasure, and Perversion,” Williams likewise argues for the mobility of gendered positions within sadomasochistic pornography, to make especially masochism...

... masochism of distinguishing in the exact moment and place of pleasure the sand that is to be picked from one’s eye with a nee- dle. The immediate and unrefined pleasure of a readerly consumption of miaoshi, yinfu, and yinhua, must...

...: Yazhou zuowei fangfa (Towards De-­Imperialization: Asia as Method) (Taipei: Xingren, 2006). 34. On the representations of sexual perversions as melancholia and masochism in early twentieth-­century China, see Jing Tsu...