Camille Paglia - SEXUAL PERSONAE Chapter 1: Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art BOOK REVIEW

[@HeavenSentHoney]

When you said "Sex Passion Violence Death... I mean she is Italian" I lost it.

[@SoVidushi]

love your channel! Came across this video because of your recommendation of the book :)

[@lepotatoes]

Why’d I have a feeling I’d see you in these comments

[@gabrielseanwallace3979]

I started watching this video with no intention of reading this book in the foreseeable future, and somewhere in the middle found myself ordering it on Amazon and nudging it into my priority reading list... That's the power of a wonderful book reviewer!

[@Szaam]

I discovered this channel a couple of years ago when I started getting sober, and was trying to replace addiction with culture. My life's in a better place now, I'm a much better reader, and if anyone can sell me on this book it's you. Thanks man.

[@GilesLimescale]

I was gooning for 7 hours listening to Bjork then saw this pop up on my notifications. My thing went soft but I listened and learned a great deal. You have great wisdom! Love Paglia too.

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

This is basically the sort of comment I’d expect on a Paglia-related video lol

[@Lososivan]

Dasha or Anna?

[@maxkproductions]

@@Lososivan Dasha all the way.

[@Never_Know_Best]

Same brother

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[@renangaldino4846]

I find this definition of Western culture as "Judeo-Christian" very strange. Hellenic-Christian culture is much more appropriate. Judaism has always been a closed culture and treated marginally in the West (unfortunately perhaps). Analyzing the history of Spain is especially relevant in this case.

[@horrorgeek5]

Pleasantly surprised you're doing this. i read this book last year on a whim and its easily one of the best ive ever read.

[@bigtux11]

Horror geek checks out. If books had genres like movies or were adapted into them, Sexual Personae would be THE horror film of all horror films.

[@berylstrangelovemore]

Rushed through the first 200 pages and fell off because of how mindblown I was by the sheer content gateway it was...I intend to pick it back up now and follow along, hoping it will break it up for me and be more digestible. I feel one aspect of paglia's individualistic ideology is in direct conflict with her understanding of nature and the feminine chaos element which is innately a collective and not a single entity, so why is it that she doesn't claim a collective mindset for the human race, but this could just be surface level observations from someone who hasn't read the whole book, so I'm excited to see where else she takes it all. It most certainly is still one of my all time favorite works to end up in my hands.

[@marclayne9261]

I have read this book since the early 90s......many times....one of my favorites...

[@ericdoce4974]

re: 14:22 there is a passage in an essay (what she calls the "canceled preface" of Sexual Personae) in Sex, Art, & American Culture where Paglia refers to the vomitorium as the exits of the coliseum. If I remember correctly, around the page where she describes watching her Italian family members take 20 minutes to say their farewells at parties.

[@filmlover123]

This has been my desert island book since 2009. Paglia changed my way of thinking and analyzing. Her other books are also brilliant. I got to meet her in Chicago while she promoted her book Glittering Images and she asked to see my marked up copy of Sexual Personae. When she saw how highlighted the chapters on Oscar Wilde are she profusely thanked me, saying they were her favorites.

[@Never_Know_Best]

That Wilde chapter is wonderful.

[@ChrisSt.Prince]

I’m envious of this story. I emailed her recently to thank her for SP and she replied, graciously. The book took me two years to read and the Wilde chapters were mind blowing. Also Sade, Dickinson, and the Decadent Art chapter, wowwwwww. And Wuthering Heights. Yeah all of it. Wow.

[@guilhermepasqual3410]

Literally the only person who is making me want the Patreon videos fr

[@GoGoGirl22100]

Wow so glad you made a video on this! It’s been on my TBR

[@desgrazi]

I love the fact that I can't go through a whole review of this channel without searching for the book to buy it. Fortunately there's a version of it in brazilian portuguese, I'm definitely putting it on my priority reading list, thanks!

[@jesuislesoleil]

Yes!! So glad you are doing a read-along on this book which has been on my list for months. I'm about to write a dissertation on the interplay between Dionysian/Apollonian forces in certain decadent horror literature so really could not have come at a better time for me. Thank you for the great high-quality content as ever.

[@Ronnie.rocket.333]

Your channel just get better, like wine

[@cd-vw3mc]

Great review of a complex book. But you didn't mention the author who is Paglia's source for lore about the Great Mother, murderous nature goddesses of the early fertility religions, creation myths, Babylonian mythology, etc.: Erich Neumann. Erich Neumann is generally considered Carl Jung's most brilliant student. Read his book "The Origins and History of Consciousness," and he will instantly parachute you into the world of Aztec human sacrifices, chthonian fertility religions, Osiris/Horis/Set mythology, Hero mythology, etc. In others of his books ("The Fear of the Feminine," "Amor and Psyche") he analyzes Greek and Roman myths. Paglia credited Neumann's two main books ("The Origins & History of Consciousness" and "The Great Mother") with inspiring "Sexual Personae." "Origins & History" is definitely the more readable of the two; "The Great Mother" is a bit dry and theoretical. Paglia gave a lecture on Neumann in 2005. It's an academic address and not particularly stirring, but it gives some background on Freud, Jung, and Neumann. It's linked here: www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/Paglia-Great-Mother1.pdf

[@nicolasdespres9694]

I'm so excited for this series, I've been putting off reading sexual personae for YEARs I never got past the fist couple chapters

[@quietreader]

really enjoyed this one, deffo going to check out this book at some point

[@CINEMARTYR]

I thought the same Re: Gaspar Noe and Roadhouse's impacts. I want McGregor in a Noe film 😂

[@stuarthicks2696]

Awesome. Read this book almost 30 years ago. Still think about it to this day.

[@Nadine-xv1kr]

I don't understand most of it but I love your eloquence.. thank you

[@vishalcain]

Cool that you made a video on this! I was planning to read this soon. Though Camille Paglia irritates me, her weirdo sexual academic analysis of art and literature interests me.

[@francisp2131]

I feel the same. Definitely going to give it a read. People always have good ideas along with less developed ones. I also think she’s far better in text than on the spot interviews.

[@bigtux11]

Thank you for posting. This book changed my life, particularly her insights about synchronicity and astrology.

[@michaelgrover6157]

Best video you’ve made, in my opinion. One of my favorite books!

[@metalyuncle]

I didn’t expect this!

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Oh damn, I saw a clip of her breaking down the artistry in Star Wars Episode 3

[@cian_dali]

She’s incredible. Maybe wrong more times than she’s right but always thought provoking

[@elijahplummer3655]

Solid critic of her. Couldn’t have said it better

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[@brightmooninthenight2111]

21:07 kind of random but where I live there's an enormous wildlife refuge swamp, and I go kayaking out there, and parts of it is like a water prairie, the water is waist or chest deep, no trees, but lots of lilly pads and saw grass and stuff, so the horizon is really opened up since any treeline is over a mile away, so the sky is immense, but the water of the swamp is black and still and so forms a perfect mirror on a windless day, so the sky is reflected in its black murk, black from the acids of all the decaying vegetation underneath. We have lotus flowers that bloom. One of the most beautiful flowers in the world. I discovered that the lotus is a religious symbol in Buddhism, because its root grows in the dark chthonic muck and the flower penetrates the clear air of light, white and pure. These two worlds inseparable

[@Never_Know_Best]

I love her and this book-the Wilde chapter is fantastic-but I’m not sure I’ll ever finish it. Too many novels on the bucket list I’d need for context lol

[@kippwharton1678]

This is so exciting

[@marcelhidalgo1076]

46 minutes!! Wow!

[@michaelz9892]

This book changed the way I think about everything.

[@Dino_Medici]

26:31 Hello sir. Who is baduoi? Idk how to spell the name of whoever you’re referencing to look them up. Do you mean Bataille?

[@martinLuis5466]

In Paglia’s Sex art and american culture it is the uncut prologue for sexual personae, it wasnt only one page at all haha.

[@vishalcain]

You might be interested in Contrapoints new video on Twilight. She mentions Paglia and her book a few times.

[@bailagringacovers]

ContraPoints is the GOAT ❤ love her

[@jesusgonzalez-acton8045]

Nah he should check out Red Scare or Bronze Age P’s many riffs on Paglia

[@bungalowlogic7676]

My gateway drug/book was Closing of the American Mind by Alan Bloom. Took me a bit while reading Paglia's "Sex, Art, and American Culture" to eealize that her mentor mentioned often was Harold Bloom, not Alan. By the time I realized my error I was hooked on this wacky Italian broad.

[@alexandrebartilotti3302]

This book is amazing! Plis read it all!

[@astralflight6151]

Yes both sexual personae and origins and history of consciousness were inspired by decline of the west, by Oswald Spengler. It is MUCH more accessible than being and time and phenomenology of spirit (both of which I’ve heard you mention multiple times before) and reading it will shed indispensable light on this book and Neuman. Also if you’ve not read Nietzsche you must, paglias entire thesis is derived from Birth of Tragedy

[@jakehadlow5993]

She didn’t learn English as a second language. Paglia explains at length that her parents chose to speak English at home, and that she believes she would not have such mastery of the English language if they didn’t.

[@BetterThanFoodBookReviews]

You're correct. Yes I recall the part you're referring to but misremembered while making the video. Thank you for catching that, I've made the edit.

[@marclayne9261]

My theory is this book influenced the film, 'The Big Lebowski'. 1999..

[@bigtux11]

How so?

[@SirSaladAss]

Does the female form make you uncomfortable, Mr. Lebowski?

[@sweatyredbull]

You should watch Camille paglia and Jordan Peterson talk in their interview. Nice video. Also you are confusing the words comprise and compose.

[@traviswsparks5164]

would you please read/ review tyll?

[@morriganbonegardener500]

I was intoxicated when I first bought and read this book. Eventually, I gave it away because, dizzyingly intelligent and eloquent though she may be, paglia gets more than a few facts wrong, and uses them to paint a picture of the contemporary society that is perhaps more normative than she means to let on. Still, I think you're right that she's a powerful gateway drug; I've now read a bunch of shit that I probably wouldn't have ever known about if not for this book.

[@MagnumInnominandum]

Darkness is the all mother. "Yahweh never calls, never writes and never remembers mother's day" 😈 Hi mom!

[@TracyRatelle]

Neuromancer is good but confusing, and I think it's on purpose. :)

[@JordyC-rc9ij]

Would love to see Camille Paglia and Slajov Zizek debate each other

[@adrianstumpp5883]

On board.

[@chilloften]

I think I was so busy being myself that I’ve never heard of or come upon most things she referencing?? I just don’t know of them or about them or care to? Maybe I live in oblivion.

[@AgrippaPetronius1903]

My bible, a psychic colonoscopy

[@AshleyGraetz]

She is the insane genius in the insane assylum of the world pointing out the insanity, while everyone points a finger and the chorus is a mixture of.. "She is insane." and "She is a genius." While she Calls in the revenge of the Counte of Monte Cristo dressed as a Lesbian Joan D'arc Khalifa

[@user-fp8xc8lf3f]

this book turned me gay unfortunately but fortunately the Pdf file kind

[@Youremythrill18]

Yas

[@RiqueUliven]

♥

[@alexrosenberger4692]

Was stoked to read this until I found out the author is a libertarian. Hard pass.

[@DeepsInvisible-we1kh]

Why do you reject Paglia and her writing on the grounds that she’s a libertarian? Of course you’re entitled to do so without explanation, but since you’ve announced this here I’m wondering if you’ll elaborate.

[@alexrosenberger4692]

@@DeepsInvisible-we1kh It's the ideology of racist teenage edge-lords everywhere. Most people grow out of it by the time they're out of high school. Elon Musk is libertarian, that should tell you plenty. For a look at how it works in practice, Javier Milei's is currently devastating Argentina with libertarian "shock therapy" economic policies, the poverty rate there is currently 57 percent.

[@JordyC-rc9ij]

Well, not by any means a libertarian but better that than the far right wing republicans! At least they largely booed Trump a few days ago!

[@SirSaladAss]

So you ID'd the person into a group you've been taught to dislike without even trying to engage with their different set of ideas. Once the person is assigned that moniker, they're amalgamated with everyone else with that tag, and stripped of individuality. That sounds like a recipe for falling victim to echo chambers.