Sublime Surrender : : Male Masochism at the Fin-de-siècle / / Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg.
When Heinrich Heine left his sick bed in 1848 and stumbled to the Louvre to fall before a statue of the goddess of beauty and lie in the pitying, cold glance she seemed to cast on his prostrate body, he defined a recurring motif of the second half of the nineteenth century, according to Suzanne R. S...
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| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cornell Studies in the History of Psychiatry
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. "A familiar smile of fascination": Masochism, Sublimation, and the Cruelty of Love
- 2. When Men Can No Longer Paint: Acts of Seeing in Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs
- 3. The Theft of the Operatic Voice: Masochistic Seduction in Wagner's Parsifal
- 4. Saving Love: Is Sigmund Freud's Leader a Man?
- 5. The Rhetoric of Powerlessness
- Notes
- Selected Works Cited
- Index