Epistemological Sadism: Queering the Phallus in Monica Treut's <em>Seduction </em>

Authors

  • Jyanni Steffensen University of Adelaide

Keywords:

Erotic films, Femmes fatales, Film, Lesbianism - Film, Queer theory, Sadism

Abstract

This article is a queer analysis of German filmmaker Monica Treut's Seduction: The Cruel Woman. This reading simultaneously reworks some of the Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic narratives of the subject and desire which have been problematic for feminism and lesbian feminism.

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Published

1998-10-01