American Imago articles from March 1994

American Imago archives from March 1994

Jewish masochism: couvade, castration, and rabbis in pain.
March 22, 1994... Introduction Couvade and the Phallus The cultural practices known collectively as couvade and their analogues in cultures that do not have formalized couvade rituals have been treated at various times in psychoanalytic...

Toward postmodern masculinities.
March 22, 1994... The question, What does it mean to be a Man? may be perennial but current sociocultural changes make exigent its critical reassessment. The twentieth century has witnessed not only the first hundred years of psychoanalysis but also profound...

Plasticity, paternity, perversity: Freud's 'Falcon,' Huston's 'Freud.' (filmmaker John Huston's 'The Maltese Falcon')
March 22, 1994... Intervening in the discussion that followed his presentation of the case history of the "Rat Man," Sigmund Freud, according to the Minutes of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society for 1907, remarked that "in no case is it permissible to classify...

Boat trip. (includes explanatory interview with author Gregg Bordowitz) (Interview)
March 22, 1994... (As a prelude to the body of the text, Donald Moss interviews author Gregg Bordowitz.) DM: As we were saying, if we're going to talk about audience, why don't you say what you might be wanting by presenting this text to an American Imago...

Homoeroticism and the Father God: an unthought in Freud's 'Moses and Monotheism.'
March 22, 1994... The "sexual libido" took over the role of a deus absconditus, a hidden or concealed god... Yahweh and sexuality-remained the same. The name alone had changed and with it, of course, the point of view: the lost god had now to be sought below,...