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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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Contemplative object

Does "contemplative object" in the following context mean "a thinking object" that is "an object enjoying thought"?


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Laura Mulvey explored fetishism in terms of sexual difference in her classic 1975 essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’, which, although many of the essay’s tenets have been superseded, still continues to form the backbone of educational curricula on fetishism, film and femininity. Taking her cue from Freud, Mulvey analysed how the male spectator’s gaze fetishises the image of the glamorised woman on screen, subjecting her to control and mastery. As long as she stays in her place as a static, beautiful, contemplative object, his identity is guaranteed. However, as the fetish object is unstable, the woman simultaneously evokes the very threat of castration that the subjection of her image to a fetish is meant to allay.

  

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catttt Does "contemplative object" in the following context mean "a thinking object" that is "an object enjoying thought"? That is not how I read it. She is an object for him to contemplate.

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  • catttt Does "contemplative object" in the following context mean "a thinking object" that is "an object enjoying thought"?
  • That is not how I read it.
  • She is an object for him to contemplate.
  • I have done that myself many, many times.
  • This is a legitimate definition of "contemplative", provoking contemplation, although not many dictionaries will delve that deep.
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cattttDoes "contemplative object" in the following context mean "a thinking object" that is "an object enjoying thought"?

That is not how I read it. She is an object for him to contemplate. I have done that myself many, many times. This is a legitimate definition of "contemplative", provoking contemplation, although not many dictionaries will delve that dee

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It means the woman is an object the man thinks about. He is contemplating her, focusing on her.

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cattttDoes "contemplative object" in the following context mean "a thinking object" that is "an object enjoying thought"?

No. It means "an object for contemplation", i.e., an object to be thought about.

We think about the object. The object does not think about us (or about anything).

In my opinion 'contemplative' was a poor word choice. At f

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