Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Monday, March 18th, 2013
This being my second time reading Lolita, I went for an annotated version, that I might pick up on a few of the frequent and obscure references dispersed throughout the novel, or at least have the translations of Humbert’s French conveniently compiled. Similarly, in approaching the text from a more critical readership, I expected this […]
Humbert the (Mad) (Creator)
Tags: Adam & Eve, Confession, creation mythology, Lolita, medicalization, Scientia-Sexualis, Vladimir Nabokov
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What a Repressive Discourse Looks Like
Monday, March 4th, 2013
T. Griswold Comstock’s “Alice Mitchell of Memphis” is a consummate depiction of what Foucault calls “a psychiatrization of perverse pleasure” because of its intense analysis of Mitchell in the context of her family history, mental behavior from observation, and the emphasis on seeking information for medical preservation (Foucault, 105). Comstock’s unique selection in his writings […]
What a Repressive Discourse Looks Like
Tags: alliance, medicalization, perversion
Posted in Kwame K. Ocran, March 5 | 1 Comment »
