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" The love of war stems from the union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction, beauty and horror, love and death. "
Most Succinctly Bred - Página 96
por Alex Vernon - 2006 - 100 páginas
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Betwixt & Between: Patterns of Masculine and Feminine Initiation

Louise Carus Mahdi, Steven Foster, Meredith Little - 1987 - 536 páginas
...to the point of terrible ecstasy. (Ibid., p. 56) Finally with relentless self-analysis he concludes: The love of war stems from the union , deep in the...War may be the only way in which most men touch the mystic domains of our soul. It is for men, at some terrible level, the closest thing to what childbirth...
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Loving Arms: British Women Writing the Second World War

Karen Schneider - 1997 - 244 páginas
...because [their] function [was] to destroy, to kill." War, Broyles concludes, is the inevitable result of the "union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction . . . love and death" (61). In one tautological stroke, Broyles claims the discursive field of war...
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Institutional Violence

Deane W. Curtin, Robert Litke - 1999 - 444 páginas
...combat veteran John Broyles lends credence to Freud's analysis in an essay entitled "Why Men Love War": The love of war stems from the union, deep in the...men touch the mythic domains in our soul. [It is], ..the closet thing to what childbirth is for women: the initiation into the power of life and death....
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Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War: American Images of the ...

Riverside Katherine Kinney Associate Professor of English University of California - 2000 - 234 páginas
...the mythified oppositions described by William Broyles in his much quoted essay. "Why Men Love War." The love of war stems from the union. deep in the...only way in which most men touch the mythic domains of our soul. It is. for men. at some terrible level the closest thing to what childbirth is for women:...
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Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future

Judith Presler, Sally J. Scholz - 2000 - 354 páginas
...Vietnam: The love of war stems from the union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction. ..love and death. War may be the only way in which most men touch the mythic domains in our soul.. ..[lt is] the initiation into the power of life and death. lt is like lifting off the corner of the...
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Peacemaking: Lessons from the Past, Visions for the Future

Judith Presler, Sally J. Scholz - 2000 - 378 páginas
...courageous as I was. l 1 Scott's revelation was not unlike Broyles's perverse epiphany in Vietnam: The love of war stems from the union, deep in the core of our being, between sex and destruction. ..love and death. War may be the only way in which most men touch the mythic domains in our soul....[It...
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Memories of a Lost War: American Poetic Responses to the Vietnam War

Subarno Chattarji - 2001 - 272 páginas
...between war and sex is, as William Broyles points out, another disturbing reason why men love war: 'The love of war stems from the union, deep in the...and destruction, beauty and horror, love and death ... It is, for men, at some terrible level, the closest thing to what childbirth is for women: the...
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Gender and Warfare in the Twentieth Century: Textual Representations

Angela K. Smith - 2004 - 246 páginas
...was articulated in a speculative commentary by William Broyles Junior entitled 'Why Men Love War': The love of war stems from the union deep in the core...in our soul. It is for men at some terrible level what childbirth is for women: the initiation into the power of life and death. It is like lifting off...
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Co-ed Combat: The New Evidence that Women Shouldn't Fight the Nation's Wars

Kingsley Browne - 2007 - 378 páginas
...Sexuality and Warfare William Broyles captured much of the source of war's appeal when he noted that men's love of war "stems from the union, deep in the core...and destruction, beauty and horror, love and death." Many men find something deeply sexual about war itself, a link that has been frequently commented upon...
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