Psychoanalytic-autoethnography: troubling natural bodybuilding

Garratt, Dean

dc.contributor.author	Garratt, Dean	*
dc.date.accessioned	2016-04-05T15:56:54Z
dc.date.available	2016-04-05T15:56:54Z
dc.date.issued	2014-08-20
dc.identifier.citation	Garratt, D. (2015). Psychoanalytic-autoethnography: troubling natural bodybuilding. Qualitative Inquiry, 21(4), 343-353. DOI: 10.1177/1077800414542699	en
dc.identifier.doi	10.1177/1077800414542699
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10034/604486
dc.description.abstract	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.
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	SAGE Publications
dc.relation.url	http://qix.sagepub.com/content/21/4/343
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	Autoethongraphy
dc.subject	Ethnographies
dc.subject	Methodologies
dc.subject	Masculinity studies
dc.subject	Gender and sexuality
dc.subject	Narrative
dc.subject	Methods of inquiry
dc.title	Psychoanalytic-autoethnography: troubling natural bodybuilding
dc.type	Article
dc.identifier.eissn	1552-7565
dc.contributor.department	University of Chester	en
dc.identifier.journal	Qualitative Inquiry	en
html.description.abstract	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.