Phallus

Analysis of a Visual Social Justice Argument How many billboards can be thought of that present an opinion that is different than the social norm? Not many? The billboard created for the release of the Deadpool movie in February of 2016 has many elements that can be analyzed. Pathos is used by the creators of the billboard to appeal to audiences in an uncommon way; reversing the societal standards of gender roles by enticing women with sex and causing men to want to be like Deadpool. The billboard is set in a white background. The image of Deadpool takes up most of the billboard. He is pictured lying on his side with his head resting on his arm, one leg stretched across the length of the billboard with his other leg pulled up behind his extended knee. His other hand is holding a gun in front of his crotch. Deadpool is wearing his red costume that covers all of his body. The slogan that runs across the top of the billboard in all black reads “WAIT ‘TIL YOU GET A LOAD OF ME”. The other wording on the billboard is located above Deadpool’s extended leg and it names the movie, Deadpool, and the movie’s release date, Feb. 12. The first thing that is noticed when looking at the billboard is Deadpool, specifically his knee that is up in the air. Deadpool is lying in a way that men are not commonly portrayed. His pose is very suggestive and objectifying, things that are more commonly associated with females. Because of this anomaly, the attention of women is…

Does the word ‘phallus’ refer to the same concept in the writings of both Freud and Lacan? Does Freud’s “substitute for the woman’s penis” (Freud “Fetishism” 842) correlate with Lacan’s “privileged signifier?” (Lacan “Signification” 1187). In The Signification of the Phallus Lacan writes: “it is Freud’s discovery that gives to the signifier / signified opposition the full extent of implications,” crediting Freud with Lacan’s discovery of the phallus as a “privileged signifier” (Lacan…

Lacan from symbolism and Phallus-centric ideas to the psychology of women and femininity Freud had spent many years writing his first psychoanalytic publication, The Interpretation of Dream (1900), in which he advanced the principals of his new Doctrine (Kurzweil:13). He considered the essence of femininity in Oedipus Complex; so, after he had become convinced that the Oedipus myth is universal and that the boy’s first desires are for his mother. Based on this, he could also expect that the…

It is without doubt that the theoretical framework of Lacanian psychoanalysis drawing upon such concepts as Oedipus complex, Castration complex and Phallus has brought about the issue of femininity and patriarchal power relations between the figure of the Father and the Mother. Throughout this essay, I intend to follow Sarup’s guide to “Lacan and Psychoanalysis” (1993) and dwell upon the matter of gender identity and sexual personality by taking into account the Lacanian understanding of…

femininity is associated with being ‘subordinate’ and passive. The concept of the phallus is the portrayal of dominance, conventionally…

for females is a natural norm. Judith Butler presents a more modern, fluid form and understanding of feminized masculinity stemming from the idea “gender identity does not cause gendered behavior, but rather that performing gender creates the sense of internal gender identity” (Gardiner 602). Butler presents these ideas in her understanding of the lesbian phallus. While previous scholars had presented the phallus (penis), a symbol of power and control, to strictly male physicality and…

According to Butler (60), Compulsory heterosexuality has created two “mutually exclusive” positions. One position supposes to have the phallus, which is men. The other position supposes to be the phallus, which is women. The problem is men can never have the phallus, so they need women to reflect their power. On the other hand, women want to be the phallus for men, so they can wield the power that been needed. This is the key for a masculinist society. Without the binary and oppositional system…

normal penis are similar in many aspects. The anatomical and histological analysis revealed that the neurodevelopment and the corporal bodies are similar except at the ventral aspect where there is arrested urethral development, deficient of corpora spongiosum, and abortive prepuce. (13) In general the penis is supplied by 3 pairs of nerves, the dorsal , perineal and cavernosal. The dorsal nerves run in two well-defined bundles superio-lateral to the urethra and it has been noticed that at 12…

back to life. Jesus was put into a cave that was then sealed shut. Three days passed and the cave was re-opened. The followers of Jesus noticed that Jesus had risen. Osiris on the other hand, was locked in a chest that was thrown into the Nile River. Osiris’ wife, Isis, found the chest and she took it back to Egypt to resurrect him, but Set decided to cut Osiris’ body into several pieces and scatter them all over the world in hope that he will never be brought back to life. Isis searched, found…

Romances, written by Sigmund Freud, he focuses on the development of a child’s sexuality and relates it to one of his most popular theories based around the sexual development of children, the Oedipus Complex. In short, the Oedipus complex is the subconscious sexual attraction that a child has towards the parent of the opposite sex while harboring feelings of animosity towards the parent of the same sex. According to Freud, there are five major phases of a child’s sexuality the oral, anal,…