Becoming a subject in (his) own right
1. Does "the processes of loss and fetishistic attachment that adhere to the intersubjective space between mother and child" mean "the loss and fetishism governing the complex relationship between the mother and the child"?
2. Does the yellow sentence mean "motherhood is a concept between 1. the imagination of being complete as a mother and 2. the damages and losses that are brought to the life of mother by the child"?
3. What does "by the child’s becoming a subject in (his) own right" mean?
Context:
Contrary to Freud’s theories about femininity proper, Kelly’s installation evidences the processes of loss and fetishistic attachment that adhere to the intersubjective space between mother and child. Motherhood is demonstrated as a site of conflict between an imaginary moment of completeness and the series of losses that are set in train by the child’s becoming a subject in (his) own right. Although completed over thirty years ago, the work still speaks to how motherhood remains a site of conflict in patriarchal discourse. Desired by the woman as a space where she might realise herself, it also embeds her desire in the law of the father, which she may find is alien to her being.
Top answer
catttt a site of conflict between an imaginary moment of completeness and the series of losses Moment of completeness - the woman feels fulfilled as a mother when she gives birth and holds her newborn babe. catttt series of losses that are set in train by the child’s becoming a subject in (his) own right She gradually loses that overwhelming sense of mothering in a set of stages as the child grows to be more and more independent as an adult.
- catttt a site of conflict between an imaginary moment of completeness and the series of losses Moment of completeness - the woman feels fulfilled as a mother when she gives birth and holds her newborn babe.
- catttt series of losses that are set in train by the child’s becoming a subject in (his) own right She gradually loses that overwhelming sense of mothering in a set of stages as the child grows to be more and more independent as an adult.
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catttt a site of conflict between an imaginary moment of completeness and the series of losses
Moment of completeness - the woman feels fulfilled as a mother when she gives birth and holds her newborn babe.
cattttseries of losses that are set in train by the child’s becoming a subject in (his) own right
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