...Zizek concludes that Vertigo is the realization of a male fantasy, which necessarily involves violence and nightmarish transformations. In the “male libidinal economy,” he says, in the jargon-y psychoanalytic speak of his trade, women must be “mortified” before they are acceptable sexual partners. Slipping out of academic argot, he clarifies: “to paraphrase an old saying, the only good woman is a dead woman.”
I suspect that the same must hold true for gay males. The only good man, therefore, is a dead man.
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ReplyDeleteto the VICTIMS of the ISLAMIC MASSACRE
in ORLANDO and THE LOVED ONES
THEY LEFT BEHIND
After great pain
A formal feeling comes
The nerves sit ceremonious –– like tombs.
The stiff hear questions
Was it He that bore ––
And yesterday –– or centuries before?
The feet mechanical go round ––
A wooden way
Of ground or air or ought.
Regardless grown ––
A quartz contentment lie a stone.
This is the hour of lead.
Remembered –– if outlived ––
As freezing persons recollect the snow.
First chill ––
Then stupor ––
Then –– the letting go.
~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
Appropriate!
DeleteThe danger of an Islamic sexual fantasy...
ReplyDeleteThat theory is getting some traction
DeleteSeems to have more substance than the "radical Islam" angle.
...Zizek concludes that Vertigo is the realization of a male fantasy, which necessarily involves violence and nightmarish transformations. In the “male libidinal economy,” he says, in the jargon-y psychoanalytic speak of his trade, women must be “mortified” before they are acceptable sexual partners. Slipping out of academic argot, he clarifies: “to paraphrase an old saying, the only good woman is a dead woman.”
DeleteI suspect that the same must hold true for gay males. The only good man, therefore, is a dead man.
Omar Mateen, caught up in his own fantasy.
DeleteThe LIEBESTOD from OMAR und ORLANDO.
DeleteHow enchanting! ––– NOT!!!
Omar: "Where are my 49 houri???
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