Abstract While critics recently have found The Sun Also Rises a fruitful text for reexamining issues of gender and sexuality in Hemingway’s work, a significant aspect of Jake Barnes’s genital wounding has been overlooked. At least from the time of the American Civil War, a diverse body of medical literature has documented the psychosomatic reality of phantom genitalia in traumatically injured men. Revisiting the novel from this perspective—imagining that Jake Barnes is haunted by a penile ghost—allows us to see this character as something more than a victim of disability. Instead, we might think of Jake’s material self as figuratively masculine but accidentally transgendered: a body that others can desire and that still can choose, or not, to reciprocate sexual feeling.

Here I must admonish the young Chirurgion that hee be not deceived concerning the losse or privation of the sense of the part for I know very many deceived as thus; the patients pricked on that part would say they felt much paine there. But that feeling is oft deceiptful, as that which proceeds rather from the strong apprehension of great paine which formerly reigned in the part, than from any facultie of feeling as yet remaining. A most clear and manifest argument of this false and deceiptful sense appears after the amputation of the member; for a long while after they will complaine of the part which is cut away.

But seeing the case stands so that the Patients imagine they have their members yet entire we must indeavour to give remedy to this symptom. “Calf?” said he, “you ain’t none, pardner. It’s took off.” “I know better,” said I. “I have pain in both legs.” “Wall, I never!” said he. “You ain’t got nary leg.” When gangrene attacks his remaining arm, it too is hacked off, reducing Dedlow to “a useless torso.” He is then sent off to the gracelessly named “Stump Hospital” in Philadelphia, where he is surrounded by other amputees, almost all of whom experience sensations of pain in members no longer attached to their bodies, and whose empirical testimony encourages the helpless physician to generalize about the phenomenon. “This pain keeps the brain ever mindful of the missing part,” he concludes, “and, imperfectly at least, preserves to the man a consciousness of possessing that which he has not.” Modern neurological research—based on the case histories of many more victims—has reaffirmed many of Mitchell’s early hypotheses. The awareness of mental sensation was “not confined to lost limbs or parts of limbs,” according to Mitchell.

“The amputated breast is often felt as if present,” he reported, “and the lost penis is subject to erections, of which Dr. Ruschenberger, U. N., has related to me a remarkable example” ().

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Pkg Patch For Socom 4 Controls. Budidaya Pepaya Calina Pdf To Jpg. Another early student of this phenomenon was William James, who explained the mysterious persistence of symptoms as a consequence of the brain’s habit of bodily memory. “The environment does not correct such a phantasm for any odd course it may get into,”. “If it slips away altogether, the environment lets it go, and doesn’t call it back. If it happen ‘by accident’ to harden itself in a fixed position, or shorten itself, or to dissolve connection with its ancestral associates in the way of muscular feeling, the accident is not repaired; and experience, which through the rest of our mental life puts prompt bounds to too great eccentricity, here lets it luxuriate unrebuked” (“Consciousness,” 257). Many years after the novel was published, Hemingway described more explicitly what he imagined Barnes’s physical trauma to have been. The “whole genesis” of the novel, he claimed, came from a personal experience in that when I had been wounded at one time there had been an infection from pieces of wool cloth being driven into the scrotum.