The superman's self-transformation was premised on the devaluation of the mass or the crowd figured as female.
The medium and the superman were bodies on display.
The romantic ideal of self-overcoming within the ' superman ' literature resonated with feminist thought.
The genius as superman came to be a remote and even illegible figure, who had overcome weaknesses and constraints through the power of the will.
While seemingly poles apart, the medium and the superman were alike in that in both a paradoxical gender inscription conveyed an epistemological and ontological instability.
Of course, monsters can be upbeat too, as other countless cases of supermen testify.
Second, the interest in the ' superman ' was not only a political one, but also spiritual or occult.
The new product is represented by a flying scientist (white adult superman), who recapitulates and advances over his predecessors.
