EVENT
David Sigler
- Title:
- David Sigler
- Presenter:
- David Sigler
- Affiliations:
- English
- Date:
- 2010-09-07
- Academic Year:
- 2010/11
- Description:
- The concept of masochism was coined in 1886 by the sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing, in tribute to the contemporary Austrian novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Since then, masochism has been debated by sexologists, psychologists, psychoanalysts, historians, sociologists, and literary scholars alike. This talk will maintain that, even in our enlightened post-Foucauldian times, our understanding of masochism has remained trapped, unwittingly, within the problematic frameworks imposed by Krafft-Ebing. In response, my talk will propose a literary approach to masochism—one that seeks to understand the perversion as a textual and narrative circumstance, and one centered around acts of reading—and will trace such an approach through the work of Sigmund Freud, Gilles Deleuze, and Jacques Lacan.
- Original Link:
- http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2010-2011/sigler
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- Citation:
- "David Sigler", Renfrew Colloquium Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mric/items/mric2010-11-001.html