Phallus

The primitive idea that men’s bodies are indestructible and unbreakable are all ideas that John Updike attacks in his article. He lays out the struggles, and the hardships of being a man in a very sarcastic way. Elinor Burkett in a similar fashion tries to show how women still have a stereotype of being treated as nothing more than sexual pieces. She talks about all the trans people who try to define how women are and should be acting when they haven't been a woman long enough to know determine…

she ranted in protest. Once the gears of despair began to turn, they banged and clinked with the same compulsive music. She had been robbed. No one understood her. No one paid attention to her. They were all blockheads, dupes of creeping sexism and phallus worship. Rune should be drawn and quartered, his eyes scooped out with razor-sharpe grapefruit spoons and smashed into jelly with hammer. Her life’s work had been ruined, the ambitious project carefully constructed from the blocks of her…

of human manifestation. In comparison, even though Shiva is most known for his phallic image, other phallic representations are present at other temples around the world, including some that pay homage to Dionysus. In the Greek representation, the phallus is represented as a pillar or column. In Orthos there is a pillar that directly represents Dionysus. Besides the two gods being represented as phallic symbols, there are also other ways in which they are depicted. Shiva also has a popular image…

Historically, sex has often been defined as the penetration of a woman’s genitals by the phallus of a man. This Definition is held by a very heteronormative idea of the concept of what is considered as sex. However, sex is not just about penises and vaginas coming into contacts with one another. Sex between two women or two males is different from the standard idea of sex and can include the use other body parts, toys, everyday objects, etc. So, as is comes to show, it is vague what actions…

Sickle Cell Anaemia In this essay Sickle Cell Anemia will be investigated in depth. What causes it, how it is passed on from generation to generation, and it’s origin will be explored, along with it’s how it occurs, how often it occurs and whether or not some races are more susceptible to it. Statistics and mortality rates will be included as well as some treatments and suggestions for those suffering with the disorder. Sickle Cell Anemia can lead to many painful side effects of varying…

Laura Mulvey on Feminism in Cinema and Theater Laura Mulvey is best known for her essays written in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” published in 1973. In this book she argues that the controlling gaze in cinema and theater is always male. Mulvey’s concept of the “male gaze” is only mentioned twice in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” but it has become the main point in feminist film debate. “The Spectacle is Vulnerable:Miss World 1970” offered a good starting point for the…

Blessed Be “Blessed be.” These are two seemingly simple words that are heard quite frequently in the neopagan community. Uttered like a “bless you” after a sneeze, said in greeting and farewell, but many do not agree with such casual usage of the phrase. While “blessed be” is seen throughout history and religions, it is most commonly associated with the tradition of Wicca. More specifically, the phrase comes from the Garderenian tradition of Wicca. The original intention of the phrase “blessed…

The love Romeo and Juliet is known to be based on desires, which influences families and genders in a patriarchy society. Dymphna C. Callaghan essay on “The Ideology of Romantic” argues that the desires in romantic love are benign, and the feeling of love presents as evanescent. Furthermore, the desires in romantic love are based on social conditions and constraints. In this critical response essay, I plan to broach two subjects of desires that Callaghan conjures – the social mechanism through…

83); herms is a quadrilateral pillar with the head of bearded man, arm stubs, and a phallus (Quinn, p. 84). Herms were usually found at the entrances to private houses, shrines, and major civic spaces of the cities. “These herms functioned as markers of boundaries and transitions between separate spaces, mediating the public or private divide…

There are a handful of psychoanalytic essays that could possibly explain the views of how this could possibly relate. Instead I choose to view the theories in which the criticism itself began and how these “founders” made it relate. In order for this to be seen I researched deeply into the theories of Freud and Lacan. In term this allowed me to get an inside look and better understanding of the topic. Freuds look into Frankenstein or really his ideas allow the reader to really get a better idea…