A vanishing protagonist

1. Does "a vanishing protagonist" mean "a hidden character"?

2. I think "the other component instinct of the desire to look, that is, the desire to be seen" wants to say "the other component of sexual instinct, that is, the desire to be seen". What is your idea?

3. Does "the initial autoerotic taking by the subject of its own body" mean "the initial autoerotic viewpoint of the subject to his/her own body"?

4. What does "institutes a new subject" mean?

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Paradoxically, Calle’s impetus for the work stemmed from a desire to capture the object, to take up the position of the voyeur, voyeurism being one of the component instincts of the desire to look. In the course of Suite enitienne, she also flirts with the other component instinct of the desire to look, that is, the desire to be seen, but in her photographic execution of what seem like inconsequential details and her staging of herself as a vanishing protagonist, she creates spaces in which we can free ourselves from the dictates of possession. It is worth noting that in Freud’s account, scoptophilia is conceived as a four-part process, whereby the initial autoerotic taking by the subject of its own body as the object of desire is redirected towards an extraneous object, leading to voyeurism per se, but that then this energy is redirected back to the subject’s own person, resulting in a new aim – the desire to be looked at – which in turn institutes a new subject to whom one displays oneself in order to be
looked at.