Roxy Music dramatized phallic desire as fundamentally masturbatory

Evidence

Roxy’s “In Every Dreamhome a Heartache” is about an attempt, simultaneously disenchanted-cynical and desire-delirious, to resolve this deadlock. It is as if Ferry has recognised, with Lacan, that phallic desire is fundamentally masturbatory. Since, that is to say, a fantasmatic screen prevents any sexual relation so that his desire is always for an “inhuman partner”, Ferry might as well have a partner that is literally inhuman: a blow-up doll. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1035

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the reader’s ch10 and ch58 material on Roxy Music and glamour, and ch5 on the ‘In Every Dreamhome’ thread from the chapter on Roxy. — connects to: Siouxsie’s drag reappropriated male specular desire staged by Roxy Music — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1034; Lacan’s insight that phallic desire is masturbatory predates pop culture’s artificial-partner stories — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1035