Resisting Nudities

The Author: Florence Dee Boodakian has a Ph.D. in modern British literature from New York University and currently teaches English literature and human rights studies at SUNY Nassau. She is the author of Tormenting Angel: A Psychoaesthetic Theory of Imagination (Peter Lang, 1999).

«In her well documented book, both cultural and philosophical, Dr Boodakian warns us against the danger of a society of auto-surveillance, a coded society where the individual has gradually and naturally internalised rules which make freedom an illusion, depriving him/her of being a ‘subject’ in the unknown (and rich) land of eroticism. In addition, she guides us with great panache towards this no man’s land of the unconscious which separates the Erotic from Porn.» (Isabelle Pagot-Votelet, Professor at the IAV d’Orleans (Institute of Visual Arts) and at the Sefco, University of Orleans, France)