![]() ![]() This is what psychoanalysis, existential experience, and ancient texts - when properly read - have to say. I particularly insist on embodiment, as opposed to "the body", and I emphasize the significance of corporeal details, gestures and mannerisms as causes of desire, insofar as they "accentuate" the beloved, and make him/her a singular individual, who stands apart from anyone else - and whose corporeal presence is lived and lively. But the overall line of thought is that, contrary to the crude, binary logic of so-called "objectification", we should read carefully the texts and understand how desire aims at the other person's desire, not at the possession of a reified body. The predominant focus of such a criticism is the importance of the male body, as object OF desire, therefore as INTENTIONAL object of the female gaze. Penelope, in Greek mythology, a daughter of Icarius of Sparta and the nymph Periboea and wife of the hero Odysseus. ![]() The argumentative strategy is a criticism of the language of "objectification", on account of what ancient poets and philosophers actually cared about, in their conception of the dialectic of desire. ![]() The way the content is organized and presented is seamlessly smooth, innovative, and comprehensive. Everything you need for every book you read. This is my contribution to an exciting conference in Basel on "Women and Objects", under the direction of Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer, and in the company of many wonderful scholars from the EUGESTA (European Gender Studies in Antiquity) network (Basel, October, 9 -11, 2017). Quotes Characters Symbols Theme Viz Teachers and parents Struggling with distance learning Our Teacher Edition on The Odyssey can help. ![]()
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