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Garratt, DeanAffiliation
University of ChesterPublication Date
2014-08-20
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This paper presents a psychoanalytic-autoethnography of embodied masculinity. It examines the sport of competitive natural bodybuilding as a means to pursue relevant ontological questions as part of a wider philosophical project. The embodied narrative addresses three overlapping themes: an examination of the discourses defining a crisis of masculinity relating to an evolving body project; an analysis of the subject’s ambivalence towards the spoken ideal of ‘physical culture’ while imagining other forms of desire and risk taking practices; an analytic autoethnographic account of a competitive body experiencing temporal feelings of ‘loss’, reflecting on fragmentary experiences connected to socially conditioned roles. Enframed by psychoanalytic theory, the analysis draws inspiration from the work of Lacan and supporting cast of Butler, Kristeva and Agamben.Citation
Garratt, D. (2015). Psychoanalytic-autoethnography: troubling natural bodybuilding. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(4), 343-353. DOI: 10.1177/1077800414542699Publisher
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Qualitative InquiryAdditional Links
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1552-7565ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1177/1077800414542699
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