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Sexual Personae
''Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson'' is a 1990 work about sexual decadence in Western literature and the visual arts by scholar Camille Paglia, who addresses major artists and writers such as Donatello, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Emily Brontë, and Oscar Wilde. Paglia argues that the primary conflict in Western culture is between the binary forces of the Apollonian and Dionysian, Apollo being associated with order and symmetry, and Dionysus with chaos, disorder, and nature. The book received critical reviews from numerous feminist scholars, but was praised by literary critics Harold Bloom and Robert Alter.
==Background==
By Paglia's own account, the ancestor of ''Sexual Personae'' was a book on aviator Amelia Earhart that she began to write in high school. Paglia's discovery of Simone de Beauvoir's ''The Second Sex'' in 1963 inspired her to write a book larger in scope. ''Sexual Personae'' began to take shape in essays Paglia wrote in college between 1964 and 1968. The title was inspired by Ingmar Bergman's film ''Persona'', which Paglia saw on its American release in 1968. The work was finished in 1981, but was rejected by seven major New York publishers before being released by Yale University Press in 1990. Paglia credits editor Ellen Graham with securing Yale's decision to publish the book. The original preface to ''Sexual Personae'' was removed at the suggestion of Yale editors because of the book's extreme length, but was later published in Paglia's essay collection ''Sex, Art, and American Culture'' (1992).
Paglia describes the method of ''Sexual Personae'' as psychoanalytic and acknowledges a debt to the work of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. The other major influences on ''Sexual Personae'' according to Paglia were Sir James George Frazer's ''The Golden Bough'' (1890), Jane Harrison's ''Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion'' (1903), Oswald Spengler's ''The Decline of the West'' (1918), D. H. Lawrence's ''Women in Love'' (1920), Sándor Ferenczi's ''Thalassa'' (1924), the collected works of literary critics G. Wilson Knight and Harold Bloom, Erich Neumann's ''The Great Mother'' (1955) and ''The Origins and History of Consciousness'' (1949), Kenneth Clark's ''The Nude'' (1956), Gaston Bachelard's ''The Poetics of Space'' (1958), Norman O. Brown's ''Life Against Death'' (1959) and ''Love's Body'' (1966), and Leslie Fiedler's ''Love and Death in the American Novel'' (1960). Paglia also acknowledges astrology as an influence on her thinking.〔
Paglia said of her objectives with the book, "It was intended to please no one and to offend everyone. The entire process of the book was to discover the repressed elements of contemporary culture, whatever they are, and palpate them. One of the main premises was to demonstrate that pornography is everywhere in major art. Art history as written is completely sex free, repressive and puritanical. I want precision and historical knowledge, but at the same time, I try to zap it with pornographic intensity."〔As quoted in "20Q: Camille Paglia" by Warren Kalbacker in ''Playboy'' magazine (October 1991); also in Gauntlet # 4 (1992), p. 133〕
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