Withdraw allegiance from the old categories of the Negative (law, limit, castration, lack, lacuna), which the Western thought has so long held… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Rape and sexual assault ... should be understood not just as a form of forced sex, they should also be understood as… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The worst thing that can happen to an artist is to be subsidized by the state. It leads to an intellectual and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
But never fear, gentlemen; castration was really not the point of feminism, and we women are too busy eviscerating one another to… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
Most observers of the French Revolution, especially the clever and noble ones, have explained it as a life-threatening and contagious illness. They… — Novalis Copy Share Image
The elimination of the will altogether and the switching off of the emotions all and sundry, is tantamount to the elimination of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
When Vishous pushed open the door to the exam room, he got a gander at the kind of seating arrangement that made… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
“Crimes against women won’t stop! As women gain more independence (both in thought and in spirit), castration anxiety will act out and… — Mallika Nawal Copy Share Image
You want to be yourself, idiosyncratic; the collective (school, rules, jobs, technology) wants you generic to the point of castration. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Lust and self-mutilation are closely related impulses. There are also self-mutilators among knowers: they do not want to be creators under any… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and… — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
For the lost are lost by nature, all your ideas of moral regeneration will make no difference, there is AN INNATE DETERMINISM,… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
Anyway, to cut off one's biological dreams seems to me the most fundamental form of psychic castration that you could imagine. — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I would say that the off-frame effect in photography results from a singular and definitive cutting-off which figures castration and is figured… — Christian Metz Copy Share Image
“He would have been half-hanged, taken down alive, castrated, his genitals stuffed in his mouth, his stomach slit open, and his intestines… — John Broadbent Copy Share Image
