TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Serial Masculinity: Psychopathology and Oedipal Violence in Bret Easton Ellis’s <i>American Psycho</i>
JO  - Modern fiction studies
A1  - Schoene, Berthold
SP  - 378
EP  - 397
VL  - 54
IS  - 2
N2  - This essay carries out an expressly gender-specific analysis of Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, showing how the novel pathologizes modern masculinity by identifying its most characteristic traits as symptoms of a variety of psychopathologies, mental disorders and cognitive impairments. Traditional masculinity is read as a residual, ideologically motivated gender construct that – by endorsing and legitimizing the realization of certain, possibly genetic, male dispositions as a fixed set of behavioral norms and imperatives – promotes the genesis a type of male subjectivity that displays conspicuous similarities particularly to Asperger’s Syndrome and high-functioning autism.<p /> 
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SN  - 0026-7724
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0014
ID  - ref1
ER  -