1. the use of obscene or scatological language for sexual gratification. 2. a love of obscenity. 3.Psychiatry. an abnormal interest in feces, especially as a source of sexual excitement.
The pursuit of sexual happiness via raunch--fetishism, water sports and coprophilia, and so forth--seeks, essentially, to restore erectile thrills by restoring the "dirty," hence forbidden, aspect of sex.
As regards coprophilia, one of the film's most vital themes and the subject of many a daring image--homosexuality being the rule, while heterosexuality, motherhood, and procreation are banished--in the giving of birth the anus replaces the vagina, while feces replace the fetus (304-05).
In Peter Shaffer's Amadeus (1979), court composer Antonio Salieri, consumed with envy of the seemingly effortless musical genius and the coarse sexual bravado of new-comer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart--and driven, as well, by resentment of the younger man's gleeful coprophilia and exuberantly bad manners--attempts initially to contain the professional advancement of his rival, but eventually seeks nothing less than Mozart's annihilation.
'Pleasure in the intestinal contents becomes enjoyment of money', he explained, 'whatever form may be assumed by money, the enjoyment at possessing it has its deepest and amplest source in coprophilia'.
The show's final work, however, was Nathaniel Mellors's Giantbum, 2009, a video installation that trapped protagonists and visitors alike in a labyrinthine dead-end tale of cannibalism and coprophilia. As an absurdist re-creation of a self-contained reality and as an allegory of self-referential artmaking itself, the work was a remarkably involuted end point for the show's altermodern narrative of artists reshaping the world.
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