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3 Non-absent Bodies and Moral Agency: Confessions of an African Bishop and a Jewish Ghetto Policeman
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The Internal Intimate Other The Internal Intimate Other
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Weeping Saints Weeping Saints
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Writing Confessions / Despair Writing Confessions / Despair
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Maternal Symbiosis / Grief Maternal Symbiosis / Grief
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Golden Sons Golden Sons
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Death of the Mother / Guilt Death of the Mother / Guilt
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The Rule of the Father / Consolation The Rule of the Father / Consolation
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Male Critic / Fear Male Critic / Fear
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Compunction: A Spirit Struck Hard Compunction: A Spirit Struck Hard
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5 Sons of Tears: Displacing the Intimate (Female) Other
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Published:December 2009
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Abstract
In their confessions, men variously deal with instances of vulnerability and protection by addressing themselves to external others. Male confessants may speak about their loved ones, those internal textual figures to whom they are intimately related, and reveal the grief and despair they feel over intimate others or the wounding associated with them. This chapter examines whether male tears reveal the confessant's deep attachment to loved ones. It considers the harm, silence, and abandonment in which the intimate other is entangled in texts that men have left as public witnesses to themselves. In particular, the chapter explores how men resolve the anxiety and wounding caused by symbiotic dilemmas between mothers and sons as well as those involving fathers, and argues that male vulnerabilities, to which confessional writings testify, do not necessarily translate into a deepening of relationships with intimate others. It also demonstrates that some acts of confessional writing are grounded in and motivated by a deep anxiety over the wounding related to intimate others, thus impeding and compromising face-to-face conversations.
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