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Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been especially connected to the figure of the male body under threat of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also considers how both midcentury detective fiction (especially the work of Raymond Chandler) and contemporaneous autobiographies of male-to-female transsexuals negotiate the terms of this gendered understanding of psychopathology, thus articulating their own notions of moral value, individual autonomy, and effective agency.
Editions of Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9780791469330
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780791469347
- PDF
- ISBN 9780791480878
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Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been especially connected to the figure of the male body under threat of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also considers how both midcentury detective fiction (especially the work of Raymond Chandler) and contemporaneous autobiographies of male-to-female transsexuals negotiate the terms of this gendered understanding of psychopathology, thus articulating their own notions of moral value, individual autonomy, and effective agency.
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Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been especially connected to the figure of the male body under threat of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also considers how both midcentury detective fiction (especially the work of Raymond Chandler) and contemporaneous autobiographies of male-to-female transsexuals negotiate the terms of this gendered understanding of psychopathology, thus articulating their own notions of moral value, individual autonomy, and effective agency.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity?
Society and Social Sciences > Society and culture: general > Social groups, communities and identities > Gender studies, gender groups
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How long is Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity and how many pages does it have?
Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity has 238 page(s)
Is Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity part of a series, and can it be read as a standalone?
Yes it is a part of series SUNY series in Psychoanalysis and Culture
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity?
Kenneth Paradis
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Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity is available as hardcover(ISBN 9780791469330) and paperback(ISBN 9780791469347) and pdf(ISBN 9780791480878)
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