Freud's Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence and Masculinity

Timofeeva, Oxana

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2025-04-07
  • 售價: $980
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$931
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 130
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 1509568417
  • ISBN-13: 9781509568413
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商品描述

This book examines violence and sexuality after Freud. Its characters, though, are not women and men, but rather animals and children. Focusing on three famous Freudian cases in which little boys had issues with animals - Little Hans, The Rat Man, and the Wolf Man - it revises the role played by animals in male gender socialization.

Timofeeva demonstrates the relevance of psychoanalysis for anyone who wants to understand how patriarchy works, but she also points to its limitations. For Freud, sexuality creates the background of our psychic lives, and unconscious sexual fantasies are the origins of psychic disorders such as hysteria, obsessions and phobias. But what are the origins of sexual fantasies?

Timofeeva argues that behind psychic dramas of sexuality there is something else: a mechanism of violence which she calls 'the machine of masculinity' and which she analyses both through Freud's cases and through the lens of religion, anthropology and her own life experiences. Wolves, rats and horses are magical agents that connect us to the world of the dead - that is, to the history of our culture in which monotheism replaced totemic practices but the basic psychosocial matrix of turning love into violence continues to reproduce itself.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書探討了弗洛伊德之後的暴力與性。其角色並非男女,而是動物與兒童。書中聚焦於三個著名的弗洛伊德案例,這些案例中小男孩與動物之間存在問題——小漢斯、老鼠人和狼人——並重新審視動物在男性性別社會化中所扮演的角色。

提莫費娃展示了精神分析對於任何想要理解父權運作的人來說的相關性,但她也指出了其局限性。對於弗洛伊德而言,性是我們心理生活的背景,而無意識的性幻想則是精神障礙(如歇斯底里、強迫症和恐懼症)的根源。但性幻想的根源又是什麼呢?

提莫費娃主張,在性心理劇的背後還有其他東西:一種她稱之為「男性機器」的暴力機制,她通過弗洛伊德的案例以及宗教、人類學和她自身的生活經歷來分析這一機制。狼、老鼠和馬是將我們與死者世界連結的魔法媒介——也就是說,與我們文化的歷史相連,在這歷史中,一神教取代了圖騰實踐,但將愛轉化為暴力的基本心理社會矩陣仍然持續重複。

作者簡介

Oxana Timofeeva is Professor at the European University at St. Petersburg, a leading researcher at Tyumen State University, and a member of the artistic collective "Chto Delat?".

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Oxana Timofeeva 是聖彼得堡歐洲大學的教授,圖門國立大學的主要研究員,以及藝術集體「Chto Delat?」的成員。