“In the experience of losing another human being whom one has loved, Freud argues, the ego is said to incorporate that other into the very structure of the ego, taking on attributes of the other and ‘sustaining’ the otherRead more…
GEND101: Queering Film – Wet Hot American Summer, Queering the Teen Movie
‘For the cult of the child permits no shrines to the queerness of boys or girls, since queerness, for the culture at large…is understood as bringing children and childhood to an end,’ (Edelman 1998, 25). Gary: ‘McKinley needs to experienceRead more…
GEND101: Queering Film – He’s Just Not That Into You and the Difficulty of Heterosexuality
“I think one of the reasons that heterosexuality has to re-elaborate itself, to ritually reproduce itself all over the place, is that it has to overcome some constitutive sense of its own tenuousness.” (Butler 1996, 114) Gigi: ‘It’s hard toRead more…