Sentences with phrase «held cultural anxieties»

The missing footage was deemed too extreme and too provocative in its depiction of gay S&M subculture for mainstream audiences, and so this bid at reenactment is ostensibly meant to confront that controversy head on and, in doing so, upend deeply held cultural anxieties about gay male sexuality and sex.

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He proposed that the psychological basis of cooperation, competition, and emotional and mental health is a tendency to hold tightly to anxiety - buffering cultural world views or «immortality projects» that serve as the basis for self - esteem and meaning.
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