Citations:patrisexual

English citations of patrisexual

Adjective

1. sexually attracted to one's father
   • 1985, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Writing beyond the ending: narrative strategies of twentieth-century women writers‎^[1], page 37:

     To the extent that the dutiful daughter and female paragon we meet in "Clary" is already overwritten with patrisexual mandates predicated on the law of patriarchalism, she cannot simply take off the law written all over her body without serious damage to the ontological integrity of her body.

   • 1996, Yu-mi Yang, The Novelistic Anomaly: Origins of Modernity's Narrative Forms, Volume 2‎^[2], page 266:

     These changes are often accompanied by pointed remarks about the plots, characters, and situations once expected in narrative: gender polarization, patrisexual romantic love, the arrest of female quest, the "happy ending" — remarks that, as we shall see, underline the self-consciousness of this critique of narrative scripts and the psychosexual drama that forms them.

   • 2015, Dianne Elise, “Reclaiming Lost Loves: Transcending Unrequited Desires. Discussion of Davies’ “Oedipal Complexity””, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[3]:

     This expression of desire (patrisexual) is likely not as regressive an undertow as is matrisexuality.