{"id":379,"date":"2017-04-17T11:19:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-04-17T11:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T15:19:42","slug":"narcissismsame-sex-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/imagining-lesbianism\/narcissismsame-sex-desire\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcissism\/\/Same-sex desire?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Donne&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Sappho to Philaenis<\/em>, I was struck by how he seems to imply a certain sort of narcissism by being attracted to the same sex. For example, a main argument used by the narrator is that the two are so alike (although separate beings), that &#8220;Why should they not alike in all parts touch?&#8221; This theme continues shortly after, with &#8220;Likeness begets such strange self-flattery, \/ That touching myself all seems done to thee.&#8221; Does Donne then see lesbianism as an extended form of self-worship? Or is it vice versa, that self-adoration is an inevitable byproduct of lusting after another woman? Either way, it seems to me that there is a connection&#8230; any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Donne&#8217;s\u00a0Sappho to Philaenis, I was struck by how he seems to imply a certain sort of narcissism by being attracted to the same sex. For example, a main argument used by the narrator is that the two are so alike (although separate beings), that &#8220;Why should they not alike in all parts touch?&#8221; This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imagining-lesbianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-2202-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}