Identity without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality

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Author(s): Mariam Fraser
Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1999

Language: English
Pages: 226

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 6
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction......Page 13
1 Identity and selfhood......Page 16
Foucault’s neo-materialism......Page 18
Greco-Roman and early Christian techniques of the self......Page 22
Bisexuality......Page 24
Simone de Beauvoir......Page 30
Bisexuality and Simone de Beauvoir......Page 34
2 Identity and embodiment......Page 37
Assujettissement......Page 38
Boundedness......Page 43
Aestheticisation: of identity, of politics......Page 46
‘What can a body do?’......Page 52
3 Telling tales......Page 59
The author-function......Page 60
Life and work......Page 61
The unpublished truths and the published untruths......Page 63
Truth and the published texts......Page 66
The ‘psy’ complex......Page 69
Becoming de Beauvoir......Page 73
Contingencies......Page 76
Individuality, responsibility and psychoanalytic ‘truths’......Page 81
Narrative closure......Page 87
4 Preclusion......Page 91
‘There was no choice’......Page 92
Heterosexual closure......Page 97
Sex and gender......Page 100
Bisexuality-as-heterosexuality......Page 105
Sameness and selfhood......Page 107
Exceeding individuality......Page 111
5 Displacement......Page 114
An ‘ethics of seeing’......Page 115
The paint and oil of existentialism......Page 118
Being bohemian......Page 122
Postcards from France......Page 123
Post-cards from intellectual Paris......Page 125
Post-cards from bohemian cafés......Page 126
Heterosexual scandal......Page 128
Disclosure and revelation......Page 129
6 Erasure......Page 136
Choice, responsibility and history......Page 138
Choice, responsibility and attitude......Page 143
Bisexuality: choice, responsibility and pleasure......Page 148
7 Lose your face......Page 153
Representation, identity and passing......Page 154
The role of the other......Page 159
Sameness......Page 163
Identity without selfhood......Page 166
Difference......Page 169
A Body without Organs of bisexuality......Page 172
Conclusion......Page 176
Making things do things......Page 177
1 Identity and selfhood......Page 183
2 Identity and embodiment......Page 187
3 Telling tales......Page 192
4 Preclusion......Page 194
5 Displacement......Page 198
6 Erasure......Page 201
7 Lose your face......Page 204
Conclusion......Page 208
References......Page 209
Index......Page 222