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from her, are extravagantly sadistic, this mental violence characterizingtheir abstracted, self-involved sexual desire. Theyare also psychologically cruel, users of others, inflicting deepemotional pain, the cruelty being an inevitable part of their intenseself-obsession. The wife of the man in the mask writeshim that, as a result of his manipulations of her, she feels “ as ifI had been forced onto an operating table. . . and hacked upindiscriminately with a hundred different knives and scissors,even the uses of which were incomprehensible. ” 52 The violencethat the men dream and the violence that they do ensuresthat they are lonely forever. Only the man in the dunes isfinally in a state resembling happiness, having been beaten upby the woman when he tried to rape her: having a chance nowbecause he failed.
STIGMAST IG M A C O M E S F R O M T H E L A T I N F O R “ M A R K , ” T H E G R E E Kfor “ tattoo” ; its archaic meaning is “ a scar left by a hotiron ” a brand; its modern meaning is a “mark of shame or discredit”or “an identifying mark or characteristic. ” 1The plural,stigmata, commonly refers to marks or wounds like the ones onthe crucified Christ, suggesting great punishment, great suffering,perhaps even great guilt.Inside a person, sexual desire— or need or compulsion— issometimes experienced as a stigma, as if it marks the person,as if it can be seen; a great aura emanating from inside; an interiorplay of light and shadow, vitality and death, wanting andbeing used up; an identifying mark that is indelible; a badge ofdesire or experience; a sign that differentiates the individualcarrying it, both attracting and repelling others, in the end isolatingthe marked one, who is destroyed by the intensity andultimate hopelessness of a sexual calling. The person, madefor sex or needing it, devoted to it, marked by it, is a person incarnatedrestless and wild in the world and defined by fucking:fucking as vocation or compulsion or as an unfulfilled
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Published by Basic BooksA Member of
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True rebels, after all, are as rare
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FOREWORDLike most writers, Andrea D
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She begins with an exploration of s
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sex you’ve been lucky or unlucky
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against the prison, and because her
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Though she was herself middle class
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movement. The term “prosex femini
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Page 25 and 26: PREFACEWhen I finished writing Inte
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Page 32 and 33: chapteroneREPULSIONN 1 9 0 5 , A T
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Page 36 and 37: Repulsion 7state censor for permiss
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and when Rechele went to confide in
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her flesh. Comatose or not, that sa
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and she spread her legs to show her
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THE FEMALE CONDITIONYou mention the
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yet, including the Nazis, has kille
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oundaries and degraded possibilitie
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this same Robert that I must go int
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avest of her troop. And there Fortu
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who maketh thee so bold to allow th
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than they had ever been but not hum
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learned men, skilled orators; she w
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honor. This was not a puerile virgi
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would have held virginity to be a s
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accounts are happily invisible in t
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was free, a rare and remarkable qua
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which she wore as men did, she was
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exception. Joan’s intransigence c
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“ the key to her strength and pow
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could or should belong to a woman,
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fantasy, in the ether, not ever hav
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“ It was he who might rather have
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pursue sex. The intercourse itself,
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Romance was her suicidal substitute
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Sophie Tolstoy, having been “ tra
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Modern versions of the story, espec
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y sex in that she is not carnal, no
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The sexual predator is murderous, a
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In Dracula, vampirism is—to be pe
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OCCUPATION/COLLABORATIONOh, God, wh
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Intercourse in reality is a use and
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classes, and so we preserve the pri
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one in which men have social, econo
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We are poorer than men in money and
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[There might be] more a mutual lyin
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Occupation/Collaborationhe might no
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Occupation/Collaborationnot at the
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tyranny and the atrocities of histo
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speak their language. Our minds thi
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Occupation/Collaboration“ iniquit
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gression of those boundaries comes
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including the condition of women, w
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it: except for the fact that it is
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those demands. It is the best syste
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POWER, STATUS, AND HATEIs that a gu
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pie know, how consciousness and sel
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eal hierarchy that nature or God cr
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less dignity and less freedom, with
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way. In fact the relationship which
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Proust too described the “feminin
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carnal chattel of men; proper objec
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intercourse expressed both the oppo
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Augustine of lust, “were a chain
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always a tension between the law th
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and you fuck him; and ultimately th
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direct: “The man had intercourse
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ejaculated into her vagina, her cap
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“ But if you can’t rape your wi
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DIRT/DEATHN FER IO R ITY IS N O T B
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month, parturiates once a year and
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the Arabs. Fuck means peace. Fuck m
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Inferiority— sex-based or race-ba
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The racially despised men pollute t
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. . . Perched in this roost about f
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apes at all; he is visually impaire
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are faceless. Without consciously r
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She painted the suffering, enraged;
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woman’s sensuality being, in the
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is concerned I am an aristocrat. I
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contact with her inferiority, her d
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what makes it so much fun. )”57 I
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scabbard or sheath. The penetration
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stands upright next to the bed, he
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your child were going to be killed
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far from asserting aggressive viril
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two parts on the bed. ” 78This to
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NOTESC H A P T E R 1R E P U L SIO N
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60. L. Tolstoy, Kreutzer Sonata, p.
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14. Williams, Summer and Smoke, p.
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2. Isaac Bashevis Singer, Satan in
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31. Trial of Joan of Arc, p. 127.32
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106. Bram Stoker, Dracula (New York
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21. Augustine, Confessions, p. 181.
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39. Raphael Patai, Sex and Family i
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