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Editor's Introduction

Editor's Introduction rooted in a psychic foundation of Freudian sexuality; second, Yu’s and Guo’s imaginative writing about the Chinese masochistic male subject sabotages some of Freud’s own claims about masochism per se; and, third, the fact that nationalism does indeed mollify the traumas of colonialism is due in part to a moment when modern, individual male subjects lament a lost or disavowed homoerotic desire. These are the preconditions of Chinese heteronormative masculinity in literary modernism during the early twentieth century, according to Jing Tsu’s consideration of the subject in the times. It can be argued that Richard F. Calichman’s “Nothing Resists Modernity: On Takeuchi Yoshimi’s ‘Kindai Towa Nanika’ ” raises related questions. This time the problem of how a modern subject makes itself possible in history and how the desire to be a subject is comprehensible historically come to us in the idiom of philosophy rather than psychoanalysis, and through the deliberations of the Japanese Sinologist and philosopher Takeuchi, lovingly and economically reworked via Calichman’s own categories and philosophic preoccupations. Posing history as that which steadfastly resists and consequently exceeds any reduction of itself to an oppositional logic like East versus West, Takeuchi (and arguably Calichman) attempts to pull subjects http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png positions asia critique Duke University Press

Editor's Introduction

Barlow, Tani E.
positions asia critique , Volume 8 (2) – Sep 1, 2000
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rooted in a psychic foundation of Freudian sexuality; second, Yu’s and Guo’s imaginative writing about the Chinese masochistic male subject sabotages some of Freud’s own claims about masochism per se; and, third, the fact that nationalism does indeed mollify the traumas of colonialism is due in part to a moment when modern, individual male subjects lament a lost or disavowed homoerotic desire. These are the preconditions of Chinese heteronormative masculinity in literary modernism during the early twentieth century, according to Jing Tsu’s consideration of the subject in the times. It can be argued that Richard F. Calichman’s “Nothing Resists Modernity: On Takeuchi Yoshimi’s ‘Kindai Towa Nanika’ ” raises related questions. This time the problem of how a modern subject makes itself possible in history and how the desire to be a subject is comprehensible historically come to us in the idiom of philosophy rather than psychoanalysis, and through the deliberations of the Japanese Sinologist and philosopher Takeuchi, lovingly and economically reworked via Calichman’s own categories and philosophic preoccupations. Posing history as that which steadfastly resists and consequently exceeds any reduction of itself to an oppositional logic like East versus West, Takeuchi (and arguably Calichman) attempts to pull subjects

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