Images of Bliss : Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning /

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Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Proust's narrator in Swann's Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the product of "some misplacing of my thigh." T...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Aydemir, Murat
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Masculinity > Philosophy.
Human reproduction > Philosophy.
Medicine > Philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
MEDICAL > Reproductive Medicine & Technology.
Medecine > Philosophie.
Masculinite > Philosophie.
Penis > Philosophie.
Éjaculation > Philosophie.
Reproduction humaine > Philosophie.
Organes genitaux mâles > Philosophie.
Reproduction > physiology
Philosophy, Medical
Human Body
Genitalia, Male > physiology
Ejaculation > physiology
Testis > physiology
Penis > Philosophy.
Ejaculation > Philosophy.
Generative organs, Male > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:Aristotle believed semen to be the purest of all bodily secretions, a vehicle for the spirit or psyche that gives form to substance. For Proust's narrator in Swann's Way, waking to find he has experienced a nocturnal emission, it is the product of "some misplacing of my thigh." The heavy metal band Metallica used it to adorn an album cover. Beyond its biological function, semen has been applied with surprising frequency to metaphorical and narratological purposes. In Images of Bliss, Murat Aydemir undertakes an original and extensive analysis of images of male orgasm and semen. In a series of.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (384 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780816654413

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