The Hemingway Bibliography
 

Title

A Farewell to Arm: Amputation, Castration, and Masculinity

Author

Carl P. Eby

Document Type

Book Chapter

Citation

Knott, Toni D., ed. One Man Alone: Hemingway and “To Have and Have Not.” Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1999.

Annotation

Psychoanalytic reading interpreting Morgan’s testicular boasting as overcompensation for his castration anxiety. Explores Hemingway’s fetishistic attraction to hair throughout the novel, looking to the author’s unusual childhood as the probable source of the fetish. Explains Marie’s excitement over Harry’s stump as a split in the author’s ego.

Date

1999

Pages

155-172

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