(Download) "Skin Gods: Circumcising the Built Male Body." by Masculinities and Spirituality Journal of Men ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Skin Gods: Circumcising the Built Male Body.
- Author : Masculinities and Spirituality Journal of Men
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 194 KB
Description
Is the body of the male bodybuilder a substitution for his penis, that one part he cannot enhance through weights? Conventional wisdom would have us believe that it is, but I am not so sure. In search of an answer I slide from body, then to penis, to foreskin and back again. On that search I make use of both Lacan and Freud. Lacan gives me a theoretical key with his idea of the 'little object a' (objet petit a), the item that simultaneously is excluded from the system in question and what keeps that whole system together. It would seem that the body-builder's penis is precisely this objet petit a. However, Freud suggests to me that objet petit a is not so much the penis as the foreskin that is cut away in circumcision. The catch is that circumcision, the mark of the religion of Moses, also points to nothing less than the absence of God's body. From that point I return to the built body to argue that the ideal body is in fact a circumcised body, but one that is ultimately as unattainable as God's body. **********
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