Beschreibung
The currently 'aroused' cultural upheaval about children as figures is one starting point of this cultural study. This 'arousal' turns out to be part of a social conflict: Things once repelled abundantly return in western images and discourses of child and youth sexuality. This volume analyzes art and media material which addresses trans-boundary aspects of sexuality. In a broad continuum, motives of abuse, 'sexual degeneration', loss of innocence, or even seduction play a role - to name a few. At the same time, the analyzed productions do not let go in their reception - and so the question of what 'transgressions' and pleasure gains are at play here poses itself once more.
Autorenportrait
Insa Härtel ist Professorin für Kulturwissenschaft mit Schwerpunkt Kulturtheorie und Psychoanalyse an der International Psychoanalytic University Berlin (IPU). Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte liegen in den Bereichen Konzeptionen kultureller Produktion/kulturelle Transformationen, Raum/Phantasmen, psychoanalytische Kunst- und Kulturtheorie sowie Geschlechter- und Sexualitätsforschung.
