/lit/ - Literature

>>18113788
>similarly it is about the inability of capital as a social function to actually engage in enjoiment.
True, but also no reading of American Psycho is complete without picking up on the homosexual undertones. Patrick is basically Adorno's gentleman sadomasochist.
>A certain gesture of manliness, be it one’s own, be it that of another, deserves mistrust. It expresses independence, surety of the power of command, the silent conspiracy of all men with each other... The archetype for this is the good looking man in a smoking jacket, who enters his bachelor’s pad alone one late evening, turns on the indirect lighting, and pours a whisky-soda: the carefully recorded fizzing of the mineral water says what the arrogant mouth does not; that he despises whatever does not smell of smoke, leather and shaving cream – above all, women, and for that very reason they swarm all over him. For him, the pinnacle of human relations is the club, the site of a respect founded on a considerate inconsiderateness. The joys of such men, or on the contrary of their models, which hardly anyone alive really matches, for human beings are always better than their culture, have altogether something of the latent act of violence. By all appearances, this is threatened to others, though he has long since had no need to do so, sprawled on his easy chair. In truth it is past violence against himself. If all pleasure sublates earlier displeasure [Unlust], then here displeasure is raised – as pride in bearing it – unmediated, untransformed, stereotypically into pleasure: unlike wine, every glass of whiskey, every puff on the cigar still recalls the reluctance, which it must have cost the organism, to accustom itself to such powerful stimuli. According to their own constitution, the he-men would thus be what they are usually presented as in film scripts, masochists. The lie is concealed in their sadism, and it is as liars that they truly become sadists, agents of repression. That lie is nothing other than repressed homosexuality, which emerges as the only approved form of what is heterosexual.

>>18029375
I nutted way too many times to The Way of a Man with a Maid. The best part is the women also becoming sadists just like the MC and creating a self-perpetuating cycle of cooming. It's not technically Victorian though.

>>17989354
American Psycho is about homosexuality and anyone who doesn't evaluate it at least partially through this lens doesn't get it.
>>17989750
Wait, people actually think The Trial is a dystopia? Damn public schools are rarted.

stop being a loser in the game of sociopathy that is called "work space". There is no nobility found here, you must outwit your opponents. This is not leisure, but war time. American Psycho is a good initiation for a clueless person how to have the right mindset to "make it" at work.
If you behave like a weakling prepare to get treated as one.