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      Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere
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      Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere

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      Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition

      Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere

      DOI link for Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere

      Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere book

      Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition
      ByJacob Johanssen
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2021
      eBook Published 22 October 2021
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003031581
      Pages 272
      eBook ISBN 9781003031581
      Subjects Behavioral Sciences, Humanities
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      Johanssen, J. (2021). Fantasy, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere: Male Bodies of Dis/Inhibition (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003031581

      ABSTRACT

      This book presents the first in-depth study of online misogyny and the manosphere from a psychoanalytic perspective.

      The author argues that the men of the manosphere present contradictory thoughts, desires and fantasies about women which include but also go beyond misogyny. They are in a state of dis/inhibition: torn between (un)conscious forces and fantasies which erupt and are defended against. Dis/inhibition shows itself in self-victimization and defensive apathy as well as toxic agency and symbolic power and expresses itself in desire for and hatred of other bodies. The text draws on the psychoanalytic thinkers Klaus Theweleit, Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Jessica Benjamin and Wilhelm Reich to present detailed analyses of the communities within the so-called manosphere, including incels, Men Going Their Own Way (MGTOW), alt-right YouTubers and NoFap users. Drawing on wider discussions about the status of sexuality in contemporary neoliberal technoculture since the sexual revolution of the late 1960s, it illuminates how sexuality, racism and images of the white male body shape the fantasies and affects of many men on the internet and beyond.

      Integrating a unique theoretical framework to help understand how today’s increase in online misogyny relates to the alt-right and fascism, Online Misogyny and the Manosphere is an important resource for academics in a variety of fields including psychoanalysis, media and communication studies, internet studies, masculinity research and more.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |27 pages

      Introduction: a psychoanalysis of the manosphere

      chapter 1|24 pages

      Male fascist bodies – then and now

      chapter 2|24 pages

      The sexual revolution, the manosphere and (post)feminism

      chapter 3|20 pages

      The backlash against the sexual revolution on YouTube

      chapter 4|26 pages

      Incels and fantasies of destroying/desiring the other

      chapter 5|22 pages

      Men Going Their Own Way – MGTOW: woman shall (not) exist

      chapter 6|22 pages

      The manifestos of mass shooters and the absent father

      chapter 7|29 pages

      NoFap: masturbation, porn and phallic fragility

      chapter |19 pages

      Conclusion: from dis/inhibition to recognition – a space for hope?

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