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anality

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a·nal·i·ty (-nl-t)
n.
The psychological state derived from and characteristic of the anal period of psychosexual development.

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This gloss on "procto," then, unclosets issues of anality that dovetail with my foregrounding of the story's homosexual--as opposed to homophobic--cues.
In another chapter, Harris beautifully reads the multiple and contradictory images of Jews in writers from Stubbes to Shakespeare and Marlowe, and thinks hard about the logic of assigning bodily locations for Jewish "penetration" and "infiltration" in a cluster of metaphors of anality.
With this wry twist, McCarthy underscores the anality of the simulacrum, and stresses its vampiric relationship to the life of the body, now fated to existence as a hollowed-out thing, an eviscerated theater.
 
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