The footnote allows readers to fill in the gaps of Molina’s character, should they choose to believe the research or not. Puig brings Fenichel’s and Frued’s research into the novel to help readers understand Molina’s character in Kiss of the Spider Woman, particularly to explain why Molina volunteers to help Valentin clean up his “accidents” during his illness. To begin, Puig introduces Fenichel’s research, which argues that “the probability of a homosexual orientation increases the more the male child identifies with his mother” (Puig 137). Molina talks about his mother in such an affectionate way, as if he longs for her like how Valentin longs for his girlfriend. Molina describes his mother’s illness as “the danger inside, she carries the …show more content…
enemy around inside, it’s that weak heart of hers” (Puig 36). He, contrasted to Valentin, sympathizes with his mother. Both Molina and his mother carry a danger inside their hearts, something that can be life-threatening. Molina’s danger is his homosexuality, while his mother’s is her illness. Puig’s inclusion of Fenchel’s research leads readers to believe that the source of Molina’s homosexuality is his identification with his mother. This identification causes his more feminine qualities as well, such as a taste for the romantic, sensitivity, and skill in the kitchen. Fenichel’s research alone explains Molina’s homosexuality, but the reader is still left to wonder why Molina takes care of Valentin to such extent. Frued offers an explanation for Molina’s hospitality.
Frued’s research explains that “certain abnormal types of personality…may be influenced by repressed anal desires,” including homosexuals, who “are forced to experiment with extra-genital erogenous zones” (Puig 141-142). Puig includes Freud’s research to inform readers of the cause of Molina’s homosexuality. Puig assumes readers are as clueless to homosexuality as Valentin is, so he includes the research to make readers empathize with Molina’s character rather than Valentin’s. Readers begin to understand the “why” behind Molina’s actions, especially to his actions regarding Valentin’s “accidents.” Frued’s abnormal personality types fostering anal desires present “an obsession for order and cleanliness [because of] the guilt which they have felt on account of their impulse to play with feces” (Puig 141). While Molina is ill, Valentin does nothing to help besides listen to his stories for a short time. While Valentin is ill, however, Molina offers to help keep him clean by wiping him after his “accidents” and offering his clothes and sheets. According to Frued’s research, Molina is not afraid to clean up after Valentin because he used to do play with feces himself as a child, which also explains Molina’s homosexuality. All of this research, should the reader agree with it, provides deeper insight into Molina’s character and why he makes various
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“Devil Got My Woman” by Skip James has a very slow speed and beat. This song also sounds sad not only in the music but also in the lyrics because it is about a woman who didn’t treat him right and he never should have loved her in the first place. Skip James’ voice was very rustic and he wailed some of the lyrics, giving the song a soulful tone. The instruments of this song seem to be acoustic guitars, which didn’t overpower the singer and his lyrics that appeared to be the main focus of the song.
Sexuality means many different things to different people, especially sexuality of a homosexual nature. Everyone has their own personal ideologies about sexuality, many of which have been forced on us by mainstream society's portrayal of what of is right or wrong. Bersani's objective is to take these societal sexual idiosyncrasies and turn them upside down to reveal how he feels gay male sex should be. In Bersani's article, Is the Rectum a Grave?, he entertains ideas of the self, sexuality (especially homosexuality), and power. Bersani believes that abolishing the self opens many options sexually and psychologically. He rejects conventional ideologies pertaining to sexuality like gender, identity and inequality but proposes new ways of thinking about sex and ones sexual identity by showing the reader new and unusual ways of viewing homosexuality and sexuality in general.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a difficult media to classify into one genre. An obvious classification of the programme¡¦s genre would be horror; but this isn¡¦t entirely true, because the show has more concepts and themes that a horror movie would, and deals with more issues as well. The show uses elements contained in the more fantasy-orientated horror movies (such as Dracula): these include mythological beings such as vampires, demons and zombies; things that aren¡¦t always contained in horror movies. In the episode ¡§Dead Man¡¦s Party¡¨, the show deals primarily with the undead (a vampire appears near the beginning of the episode, and has very little effect on the story). Mythology is also applied in the form of a Nigerian mask, which raises the dead. Mythology has not always been applied in horror movies that use such creatures, but most movies that use these creatures (especially those containing vampires) almost always follow several rules. Examples of such rules are:
The film follows the complicated character of Marcello, a homosexual man with a traumatic homosexual experience in his childhood, which results in him becoming ashamed of his sexuality and begins to fear being shunned by society for it. Marcello deals with this shame by shutting down any homosexual desire he may have and becomes his idealized figure of normal; which at this time was a loyal and disciplined Fascist. Marcello learns how to conform perfectly by becoming a Fascist spy, but two significant people in Marcello’s life disrupt his path to becoming
Everybody has experienced being in the spotlight or shadow at one point. When being in the spotlight, it means the center of attention, while being in a shadow means having the feeling of being forgotten or left out. Some may be “cool” while others are “unknown.” Although the main characters from The Metamorphosis and The Amazing Spider-Man are both bugs, they are significantly different. Gregor Samsa, from The Metamorphosis, is a human sized bug who wants to be accepted by his family while Peter Parker is a man who has the powers of a spider and is known as a heroic life saver.
It is undeniable that Andre Gide's The Immoralist, first published in 1902 in an edition of 300 copies, is at the very least, a novel predominantly dealing with Michel, the protagonist, and his search for his true authentic self amidst social and moral conventions and the subsequent consequences of deviating from these principles. It is also undeniable that it is a novel unfolding Michel's journey from a married heterosexual to a widowed homosexual. Throughout the novel Gide uses ambiguous homoerotic references to create a powerful juxtaposition of themes. The two themes collide to give the reader the complex task of ascertaining exactly how much of Michel's search is a momentous quest for a deeper understanding of his identity and how much is a disastrous facade undertaken to entertain his obvious but understated homosexual inclination.
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Foucault argues that the modern idea of sexuality was historically constituted when medical science delimited deviance. Although Foucault addresses that sexuality was shaped rather than repressed by the scientific will to know, the purpose was relegating sexual repression.
The perversions Freud covered in his essays include: inversion, fetishism, sadism and masochism, anal intercourse, use of the oral mucous membranes and pedophilia. Each perversion was intensely explored and explained. Freud 's sole purpose of his three essays was to bring light to the different aberrations that exist and deem them as normal or an actual aberration. While many of the perversions mentioned in the essay were written off as either an aberration or a perversion at the time the essays were written, people’s views on sexuality have changed tremendously since then. Many of the acts that were viewed as a perversion during Freud’s time are now known as something that is normalized and praised to certain extents.
Freud’s describes psychoanalysis as a basic assumption in which, the philosophical thought could be justified in the results. The first evaluation of personality is the function of the 5 stages of psychosexual development. According to Freud, they could be described as stages that are set into place from birth till the age of 6 and they include the Oral stage, the Anal stage, the Phallic stage, the Latency period and the Genital stage. The purpose of the stages as defined by Freud was to understand the crucial importance of the formation of personality and how the id is in conflict with the individual wishes and social norms in contrast to the ego and super ego that, are developed to direct the need for gratification.
Since Sony received the rights to the Spider-Man franchise they have gone on to produce two different versions of the wall crawler, Spider-Man and The Amazing Spider-Man. Spider-man directed by Sam Raimi was released in 2002 and fans instantly were glued to watching the hero on the big screen for the very first time. Critics loved it like The New York Daily quote “Spider-Man is an almost-perfect extension of the experience of reading comic-book adventures.”Due to its success Sony went on to produce two more movies under the title in 2004 and lastly in 2007. With disputes over the script and release date of the fourth installment Sony went in a completely new direction releasing The Amazing Spider-Man series directed by Marc Webb in 2012 leaving
In this paper I plan to showcase the nature of sexual identity, and to do this I will draw from examples in the book As Nature Made Him written by John Colapinto. This book offers two contrasting opinions, one that says it is nature that determines the sexual orientation of a person, and one that says it is how one is raised. As a well-researched book, it offers a great foundation for this paper, and the issues discussed within. To start out, we will begin with John Money’s belief on sexuality, notably that it comes from nurture, and not nature.
According, to Freudian theory “the unconscious aspects of the human psyche and that all behaviour is motivated by sexuality.” (class
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The theory does a good job at delineating the stages of psychosexual development; our childhood has a great influence on our personalities. Referring to Freud’s ‘psychosexual stages’, it is very clear that parents’ role in an infant’s life is the foremost step to structure the personality. Not to forget, the oral and anal stages are focal fundamental to character traits in a person’s behavior. The inner ‘instincts’ of sexuality and aggression meeting with the socially acceptable norms creates a conflict zone, wherein it is decided what we are to do and what we would become.