Hemingway's fetishism
Subtitle: psychoanalysis and the mirror of manhood
By: Carl P. Eby.
Series: SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Knowledge -- Psychology.; Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 -- Psychology.; Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.; Psychological fiction, American -- History and criticism.; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Psychology.; Gender identity in literature.; Masculinity in literature.; Fetishism in literature.; Men in literature.
Description: In Hemingway's Fetishism, Carl Eby demonstrates in painstaking detail and with stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in both Hemingway's life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingway's lifelong erotic obsession with hair, but this book is the first to explain in a theoretically coherent manner why Hemingway was a fetishist and why we should care.

Without reducing Hemingway's art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingway's fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingway's work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 335-348) and index.