Phallus

Films are universally known to generalize individuals especially in relation to their gender. Though they contain different themes, movies follow a similar pattern; the beautiful, innocent woman is recused by an attractive, strong male. In Carol J. Clover’s article, “Her Body, Himself: Gender in the Slasher Film”, she explores a new emerging pattern in horror cinema where the woman herself becomes the hero. Clover’s purpose in writing her article is to help her audience become familiar with the…

In “The Laugh of the Medusa” French feminist Hélène Cixous writes about “écriture féminine” and invite women to write about themselves and to reclaim their bodies. She takes into account psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud’s terms but disagrees with his idea of men being more valuable than women because they have a penis. She also opposes that there is a typical woman and argues that all women have “individual constitutions” (876). Many feminists as Cixous criticize Sigmund Freud’s psychosexual…

Marijuana’s use as part of religious ceremonies is nothing new. The practice goes back for thousands of years in a variety of cultures such as The Hindu, Rastafarians, and monks. Rastafarians are well known for their religious use of marijuana. Most Rastafarians are vegetarians or vegans, and the most Rastas follow a strict dietary law called ital, which is based on natural vegetarian food. Many Rastafarians wear their hair in dreadlocks. Rastas call the cannabis plant ganja, the holy herb, Iley…

In today 's society, people do expect different behaviors and attitudes from the opposite sex and gender despite of their age. It is highly thought that women are more talkative, emotional and affectionate to others than men and men are more thought to be courageous, aggressive, and ambitious to others when compared to women. Furthermore, when it comes to comparing Men/Women and males/females, both sexes experience emotions. According to “Marriages in the Families. Changes, choices, and…

Tough Guys: Masculinity in Hard-Boiled Fiction Hard-boiled fiction initially emerged in the pulp magazines, such as the Black Mask, in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties. The genre originated through the writings of Dashiell Hammett and further developed by the work of Raymond Chandler. Hard-boiled fiction is often acclaimed as an icon of American masculinity in modern literature. The conception of masculinity represented by the protagonist in these narratives became popular amongst…

1.DEFINITION OF FEMINISM According to different social structure theses have been put forward regarding the status of women within the historical process. One of the most popular of these is the patriarchal / patriarchal society structure of matriarch / matriarchal. Particularly, women were regarded as masters of power and power in the matriarchal period in the hunter-gatherer society when they were in a more prestigious position. In the patriarchal / patriarchal period where agriculture was…

This angers his mistress who, upon hearing his confession about his intentional unfaithfulness, jabs his sword (a masculine and priapic symbol of power ) in his neck. Hence, Ishwar Singh becomes doubly the victim of his own phallus – for it causes the symbolic death of his sexuality and later his physical death. The character of Ishwar Singh thus represents the phallocentric self which always depends on violence to assert his subjectivity. In her short story “Lihaaf” Ismat…

Cross-dressing is about the phallus as constitutively veiled. Cross-dressing is about the anxiety of economic or cultural dislocation, the anticipation or recognition of "otherness" as loss." (Vested Interest, Garber) Cross-dressing has been around for many centuries but is still not…

The one reading that stood out to me was Chapter 1, Abject from Hal Foster's book Bad New Day. It caught my attention not because he mentioned engaging writers and psychoanalysts; Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud or George Bastille, but being it is relevant to my work and what I am specifically attracted to as an artist. There are particular things Hal Foster brings up throughout Chapter 1. For example, he discusses and brings up the concept of the gaze and quotes Jacques Lacan, “the subject is…

The Unspoken Sexuality in the Art of Ancient Egyptians An air of haunting mystery revolves around the land of ancient Egyptians from their grand pyramids and dressed up mummies to their mysterious writings. However, there is a deeply ingrained sexuality within this ancient world that has not been portrayed as strongly in compared to the importance it partook in the lives of the ancient Egyptians. A profoundly religious people, the ancient Egyptians believed sex played a significant role in not…