Bøger af R. Horrocks

This book examines some of the ways in which sexuality has been described and interpreted in the West. the psychoanalytical model, including such notions as the sexual drive, infantile sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and the distinction between male and female sexuality;

This book studies some important myths of masculinity in various popular genres, including the western, the horror film, rock music and pornography. Attention is also paid to important theoretical issues in gender studies and cultural studies, such as identification and the relation between subject and text.

This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other.

The book examines some of Freud's themes which remain challenging and relevant today - for example, psychoanalysis as a form of narrative-construction, the creative nature of memory, the revolutionary nature of the knowledge gained through psychotherapy, and the unconscious, which subverts any notion of stable human identity.

This book examines some of the ways in which sexuality has been described and interpreted in the West. the psychoanalytical model, including such notions as the sexual drive, infantile sexuality, the Oedipus complex, and the distinction between male and female sexuality;