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Sex, Paranoia, and Modern Masculinity explores how twentieth-century conceptions of paranoia became associated with the excessive or unregulated exercise of masculine intellectual tendencies. Through an extended analysis of Freudian metapsychology, Kenneth Paradis illustrates how paranoid ideation has been especially connected to the figure of the male body under threat of genital mutilation or emasculation. In this context, he also considers how both midcentury detective fiction (especially the
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kenneth Paradis
- Publisher
- State University of New York Press
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780791480878
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Science, Psychology, Gender Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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