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THE CALL OF THE WILD
this is why Žižek has argued that the monster is ‘the pure “subject of
the Enlightenment”’. 50
Of course, as Simone de Beauvoir pointed out, the ‘universal’ subject
of the Enlightenment was gendered masculine, and the oppositions that
constitute the modern notion of subjectivity are also deeply gendered.
In this sense, the ceaseless crisis of the male werewolf has also been
a privileged crisis that has had very little to do with the experiences
of women or the myriad Others who have been routinely identified
as object, body or substance in contrast to the ‘substanceless point
of pure self-relating’ that constitutes the subject. And that is why
representations of the female werewolf have differed so markedly from
images of male lycanthropy.
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