Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-209) and index.
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Reflecting Narcissus; 1. No Exit: Romantic Male Narcissism; 2. Reverse of the Mirror: Symbolism and Sexology; 3. Sons and Lovers, Birds and Johns; 4. Queer Queer Vladimir; 5. The Gothic in a Culture of Narcissism; Conclusion: Rejecting Narcissus; Notes; Works Cited; Index.
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Extending the horizons of queer, feminist, and psychoanalytic theory, this book challenges the twentieth century's predominant understanding of narcissism--and the predominantly narcissistic qualities of male same-sex desire--as allegedly solipsistic, immature, sterile, antisocial, and apolitical. Bruhm argues that Narcissus has, instead, served to trouble the very cultural and gendered norms that define him.