The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis.

He is the author and founder of the multimedia review “Psicoanalisi e Scienza” (Psychoanalysis and Science), the most read Italian on line review of psychoanalysis. In 2012 he participated as a Speaker at the Scientific Festival of BergamoScienza. In 2013 he illustrated his research on the maternal-fetal interaction in the Special Session of the XI World Congress of Perinatal Medicine in.

Marshmallow’s most intimidating trait is his cavernous mouth symbolizing a vagina dentata that is similar to the lair of Ursula in The Little Mermaid (see (Dundes and Dundes 2000)). Just as visitors to Ursula’s cave must swim through the toothed maw at its entrance, a vagina dentata that presents a threat of male castration, so those seeking to enter Elsa’s castle must face Marshmallow.

Representations of The Body in Alien:. it is necessary to discuss some of the psychoanalytic principles defined by Sigmund Freud.. “Its toothy, dripping mouth was hermaphroditic: while the double jaws represented the inner and outer labia of the vagina dentata, the projectile movement of the inner jaw was a phallic threat.” It is no coincidence that the Alien’s hardened exterior.

The negative, destructive aspects appear as the devouring mouth or the vagina dentata. In more abstract symbolism, anything hollow, concave or containing pertains to the great mother. Thus, bodies of water, the earth itself, caves, dwellings, vessels of all kinds are feminine. So also is the box, the coffin and the belly of the monster which swallows up its victims. See Neumann.

Free Women, Free Men is a collection of Camille Paglia's articles, lectures and interviews on feminism and gender from 1990 through 2016. A significant portion of the content consists of criticisms of modern feminism, for its pervasive misandry, its collective victimhood complex, its denial of biology, and its historical revisionism. She particularly focuses on campus feminism, with its.

After Freud’s initial and misguided forays into female sexuality and the “dark continent” it constituted for him, psychoanalysis has for the most part continued to build theories of sexuality and gender around pathological formulations rather than healthy and functional development. It is indeed an occupational hazard that, psychoanalysis often begins by focusing on what goes wrong. So.

Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism Camille Paglia. From the fiery intellectual provocateur— and one of our most fearless advocates of gender equality—a brilliant, urgent essay collection that both celebrates modern feminism and challenges us to build an alliance of strong women and strong men. Ever since the release of her seminal first book, Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia has.

Even within the text of The Uncanny itself, Freud continually comes unstuck in his analyses as taken to their conclusion each argument ends in something comic, for example in the context of the 'compulsion to repeat' Freud tries to show its association to the uncanny, only to slide once more towards the comic: “Or one may wander about in a dark, strange room, looking for the door of the.

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The “vagina dentata,” a concept in folklore and psychology, posits the vagina as a toothed maw primed for castration. The concept draws on widespread fears and symbols about the female body as.