How Long to Read The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 24 minutes to read The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity by James Thomas

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

E X C E R P T S from The Shaman in the Disco: it often happens for men that sensual deprivation leads to sexual obsession. Not knowing how to be with his inner alienation, he brings it to his girlfriend and experiences it, inaccurately, as estrangement between them. This perilous move to seek one's psychological moorings in someone else is to a great extent the fulfillment of our cultural fantasy of "love." I see in the image of Dracula, bent over the entranced woman and sucking her blood, the inevitable outcome of a man's desire who has been socialized into a hostile relationship towards all things in himself we in our culture call "feminine." He [Darth Vader] has literally and figuratively opened up, become unmasked, and he and Luke share a moment of unguarded closeness. It will be their first and last, because, along the lines of many father-son scenes like this in American film and literature, the defenses and guardedness fall away only when the father or son is dying. As if in male culture one could only die for-not live with-this sort of closeness. Love requires of us the ability to surrender our ego needs to the greater ideal of union with another; this first necessitates that we can surrender our ego defenses to a greater awareness of and intimacy with ourselves.

How long is The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity?

The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity by James Thomas is 139 pages long, and a total of 36,001 words.

This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 44% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 16 minutes to read The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity aloud.

What Reading Level is The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity?

The Shaman in the Disco and Other Dreams of Masculinity is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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