Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood (Psychoanalysis and Culture)

Hemingway's Fetishism: Psychoanalysis and the Mirror of Manhood (Psychoanalysis and Culture) by Eby, Carl P.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780791440049.

Demonstrates in painstaking detail and with reference to stunning new archival evidence how fetishism was crucial to the construction and negotiation of identity and gender in Hemingways life and fiction. In Hemingways 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 Hemingways life and his fiction. Critics have long acknowledged Hemingways 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 Hemingways art to his psychosexuality, Eby demonstrates that when the fetish appears in Hemingways fiction, it always does so with a retinue of attendant fantasies, themes, and symbols that are among the most prominent and important in Hemingways work.