Key words: Colombian short stories; XX Century;
Erotism; History.
Thus Joel Kahn's paper on the construction of Malay identity approaches its subject through the language of subalternity, McLaren's paper on the literature of resistance in China through the language of
erotism, Stivens and Healey on Malay women and to some extent Ram on the anthropological construction of Indian identity through the language of feminism and all of the papers to a greater or lesser extent through a critical perspective which attempts to see beyond conventional explanations.
After that he fell asleep too, immersing himself in the images of what he had done in the last couple of days, with a satisfied look on his face, letting the waves of
erotism that were still going through his body wash over him, making him jerk slowly from time to time.
It kills individuality,
erotism of the naked body, makes person unrecognizable - but branded...That's the history of mass preferences."
As George Bataille writes in
Erotism, there is something infinite buried deep within us, something which we can never fully integrate into our systems of control and mastery: "There is in nature and there subsists in man a movement which always exceeds the bounds, that can never be anything but partially reduced to order.
The first chapter, "The Ideological Fantasy of Otherness Postmodernism," begins to define the contours of "otherness postmodern
erotism," arguing that its ideological fantasy is that postmodernists can "see through" ideologies that essentialists accept, a fantasy that Kim understands as masking the continued reliance on essentialist identity-based assumptions.
[W]ith the assumption of an erect posture by man and with the depreciation of his sense of smell, it was not only his anal
erotism which threatened to fall victim to organic repression, but the whole of his sexuality; so that since this, the sexual function has been accompanied by a repugnance which cannot further be accounted for, and which prevents its complete satisfaction and forces it away from the sexual aim into sublimations and libidinal displacements.
"Blonde women seem to invite transgression, and thus
erotism," she added.
(119) GEORGES BATAILLE,
EROTISM: DEATH & SENSUALITY 63 (Mary Dalwood trans., 1986) (1957) ("The transgression does not deny the taboo but transcends it and completes it.").
The whole of sexuality and not merely anal
erotism is threatened with
In his essay "Anal
Erotism and Castration," Freud writes: Faeces are the child's first gift, the first sacrifice on behalf of his affection, a portion of his own body which he is ready to part with, but only for the sake of some one he loves.