- Title
- A Farewell to Arm: Amputation, Castration, and Masculinity
- Author/Creator
- Carl P. Eby
- Publication Details
- One Man Alone: Hemingway and To Have and Have Not, pp.155-172
- Annotation
- Psychoanalytic reading interpreting Morgan s testicular boasting as overcompensation for his castration anxiety. Explores Hemingway s fetishistic attraction to hair throughout the novel, looking to the author s unusual childhood as the probable source of the fetish. Explains Marie s excitement over Harry s stump as a split in the author s ego.
- Academic Unit
- Hemingway Bibliography
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Record Identifier
- 991015136399803691
Book chapter
A Farewell to Arm: Amputation, Castration, and Masculinity
One Man Alone: Hemingway and To Have and Have Not, pp.155-172
1999
Appears in Hemingway Bibliography
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