Psychoanalysis
"Anxiety is inscribed in a desire that can never be fulfilled [for a male]: a return to oneness with the phallic mother. As the boy passes through the Lacanian mirror stage, desire is transposed to the father and later to patriarchal society. Desire for the phallic mother never ceases, but upon threat of castration (finding out that the mother /woman is nor the bearer of the phallus) he must defer desire to the father to have the phallus. The motivation for identifying with the father cannot be fulfilled because it is based on the assumption that the father possesses the phallus of the phallic mother" (Lukinbeal and Aitken 1998, 360).
The Hysterical Trilogy
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Publications
Aitken, Stuart, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1998. Disassociated Masculinities and Geographies of the Road. In, The Road Movies Book. pp. 349-370. Edited by Ina Hark and Steve Cohan. New York: Routledge.
Aitken, Stuart, and Chris Lukinbeal. 1998. Of Heroes, Fools and Fisher Kings: Cinematic Representations of Street Myths and Hysterical Males in the Films of Terry Gilliam. Images of the Streets: Planning, Identity and Control in Public Space. pp. 141-159. Edited by Nick Fyfe. New York: Routledge.
Lukinbeal, Chris, and Stuart Aitken. 1998. Sex, Violence and the Weather: Male Hysteria, Scale and the Fractal Geographies of Patriarchy. In, Places Through the Body. pp. 356-380. Edited by Heidi Nast and Steve Pile. New York: Routledge.