Smooth Criminals: Mystified Desires and Their Pursuits in Leaving Neverland

Q3 Social Sciences

Studies in Gender and Sexuality Pub Date : 2021-04-03 DOI:10.1080/15240657.2021.1913346

E. Duarte

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The documentary Leaving Neverland details Michael Jackson’s alleged sexual activity with two young boys during the 1990s. While prior scholarship on early sexual trauma focuses on the immediate dyad, this article examines the role of the larger interpersonal field and the centrality of mystification among the protagonists in the film. It addresses how they mystified one another about what was wanted, who wanted it, and at whose expense, in the prelude to, onset of, and chronicity of the sexual relationships. In so doing, an expanded conception is offered of mystification as an emergent and ongoing quality of an interpersonal field, rather than a singular act performed by one person on another. Such a conception allows for a more nuanced and contextualized understanding of how child sexual trauma begins, continues, and remains secret for so long

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光滑的罪犯:神秘的欲望和他们在离开梦幻岛的追求

纪录片《离开梦幻岛》详细描述了迈克尔·杰克逊在上世纪90年代与两名年轻男孩的性行为。先前关于早期性创伤的学术研究关注的是直接的两性关系，而本文探讨的是更大的人际关系领域的作用，以及电影中主角神秘化的中心地位。它讲述了他们是如何迷惑彼此的，关于他们想要什么，谁想要，以及以谁为代价，在性关系的前奏，开始，和慢性。在这样做的过程中，一个扩展的概念被提供了神秘化作为一种突发的和持续的人际领域的质量，而不是一个人对另一个人的单一行为。这样的概念可以让我们对儿童性创伤是如何开始、持续并在这么长时间内保持秘密有一个更细致和情境化的理解

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Studies in Gender and Sexuality Social Sciences-Gender Studies

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期刊介绍： Beginning in the final two decades of the 20th century, the study of gender and sexuality has been revived from a variety of directions: the traditions of feminist scholarship, postclassical and postmodern psychoanalytic theory, developmental research, and cultural studies have all contributed to renewed fascination with those powerfully formative aspects of subjectivity that fall within the rubric of "gender" and "sexuality." Clinicians, for their part, have returned to gender and sexuality with heightened sensitivity to the role of these constructs in the treatment situation, including the richly variegated ways in which assumptions about gender and sexuality enter into our understandings of "normality" and "pathology."