1. Does "a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself, using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish" mean:
a) a phantasy of 1. turning psychoanalysis against itself, 2. using the part object against the phallus and 3. using the humour against the fetish
or
b) a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself by means of using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish?
2. Does "another possibility for the female artist that acknowledges the play of internal aggressive forces" mean:
"another possibility for the female artist to represent the game among internal aggressive forces"?
3. Does "which are undifferentiated by gender rather than always already solidified in a coded gendered body " mean:
"which are not differentiated by gender in spite of the prevalence of gender differences"?
Context:
For Nixon, this photograph portrays a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself, using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish. What emerges in this account is another possibility for the female artist that acknowledges the play of internal aggressive forces which are undifferentiated by gender rather than always already solidified in a coded gendered body. Subjectivity is still structured through loss as destruction, but the latter is also generative of replacements that are not substitute objects for a missing penis, as in the Freudian register, but emerge from the visceral actions of biting, sucking and cutting, which are imbued with psychic desire and can be re-enacted by the artist in the register of materials.
catttt b) a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself by means of using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish? This one. catttt "another possibility for the female artist to represent the game among internal aggressive forces"?
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cattttb) a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself by means of using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish?
This one.
catttt"another possibility for the female artist to represent the game among internal aggressive forces"?
Something like that. "Play" here does not refer to a g