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The Limits of Ferocity is a powerful critique of the culture of extremity represented in the works of D. H. Lawrence, Georges Bataille, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer. Daniel Fuchs provides close readings of their literary and intellectual texts, which convey a loathing of middle-class culture or, as the case may be, society itself, in favor of a rebellion often expressed as an aggressive, even apocalyptic, sexuality. The Marquis de Sade is the precursor of this literature, which idealizes the self that violates taboos and laws in the search for erotic transcendence. Fuchs shows as well how these writers reflected and contributed to a broader cultural assault on liberal moderation and Freudian humanism. He explains Freud's theories of culture and sexual aggression and describes how they were rejected or reworked, sometimes in favor of a liberating violence, by theorists including Wilhelm Reich, Norman O. Brown, and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. Fuchs concludes with a reflection on books by William Burroughs, Bret Easton Ellis, and the sociologist Philip Rieff. This absorbing study illuminates the utopianism and narcissism in works of intellectual and artistic "ferocity" that characterized the turn in American consciousness from the period after the Second World War to the late 1960s and 1970s.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

30 mai 2011

EAN13

9780822394112

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

1 Mo

Literary theory

T H E L I M I T S O F F E R O C I T Y

THE LIMITS OF FEROCITY

S E X U A L A G G R E S S I O N A N D M O D E R N L I T E R A R Y R E B E L L I O N

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D A N I E L F U C H S ..........................................................

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S

D U R H A M A N D L O N D O N

2011

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I N M E M O R Y O F M Y W I F E , C A R A ,

H U M A N I S T, F R I E N D , L O V E R ,

A N D M Y S I S T E R F R A N ,

C L I N I C A L P S Y C H O L O G I S T A N D

L I F E L O N G B U D D Y, W H O O P E N E D

M Y T E E N A G E L I T E R A R Y E Y E S

T O T H E T H E O R E T I C A L S U B T L E T Y

O F P S Y C H O L O G I C A L C O N S I D E R AT I O N S .

CONTENTS

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I N T R O D U C T I O N

1.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Freud and the Postwar Temper 2.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Freud and Others on Aggression 3.Wilhelm Reich . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

4.Norman O. Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 5.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67Deleuze and Guattari

Deleuze and Guattari I N T E R C H A P T E R on Lawrence and Miller88

6.The Marquis de Sade . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 7.D. H. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 8.Georges Bataille . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194

I N T E R C H A P T E RBataille on Sade224

9.Henry Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

I N T E R C H A P T E RMiller on Lawrence271

10.Norman Mailer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293

I N T E R C H A P T E RMailer on Miller332

C O N C L U S I O N :The Naked and the Clothed . . . . . . . 346 N O T E S. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363 . D E X. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391 I N

A C K N O W L E D G M E N T S

I am grateful to the readers of this study, from whose insights and encourage-ment I have beneﬁted. My thanks to Reynolds Smith of Duke University Press for his editorial help. I also wish to thank the Yaddo Corporation, in Saratoga Springs, New York; the Rockefeller Foundation, at Villa Serbelloni Bellagio, Italy; and the Wurlitzer Foundation, in Taos, New Mexico, for giving me ideal space and landscape to nurture my reﬂections. Thanks, too, to the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, for granting me released time toward the beginning and in the middle of my labors, and to the City University Research Foundation for grants during the same periods. The following were venues for trial-run lectures on material for this book: the John F. Kennedy Institute for American Studies, Free University of Berlin; Humboldt University, Berlin; the City University Graduate Center, New York; Kansai University, Osaka; and Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka; Beijing For-eign Studies University; and Jagellonian University, Krakow. I am grateful to them. The dedication to this book could have been extended to include my daughters, Margot and Sabrina; clinical psychologist and literary critic, re-spectively, they carry on a second generation of such compatible activity in our family. These are professions that put character ﬁrst. Even more valuable than Margot’s and Sabrina’s reality as thinkers is their reality as daughters.

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