Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood

by Eby, Carl P.

• ISBN13: 9780791440032
• ISBN10: 0791440036
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care. Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work."Eby stands out as a particularly fine writer who has brought unfamiliar Hemingway materials together in creative conjunctions to illuminate the classic works. His critical savvy and sense of humor are very refreshing.

Author Biography

Carl P. Eby is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of South Carolina at Beaufort

Table of Contents

Illustrations	ix	(2)
Acknowledgments	xi	(4)
Abbreviations	xv
Introduction: A Short Apologia	1	(14)
Chapter 1. The Core Complex and the Field of Fetishistic Fantasy	15	(26)
Chapter 2. Freud, Fetishism, and Hemingway's Phallic Women	41	(46)
Chapter 3. Biography, Post-Freudian Theory, and Beyond the Phallus	87	(32)
Chapter 4. Loss, Fetishism, and the Fate of the Transitional Object	119	(36)
Chapter 5. Ebony and Ivory: Hemingway's Fetishization of Race	155	(30)
Chapter 6. Bisexuality, Splitting, and the Mirror of Manhood	185	(56)
Chapter 7. Perversion, Pornography, and Creativity	241	(36)
Notes	277	(58)
Bibliography	335	(14)
Index	349