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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Desublimate

1. Does "desublimate" mean "desacralize and desanctify"?


2. Does "mobile " in the following context mean "not static, not stable, and fluid"?


3. Does "a swing" mean "a movement"?


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Apparently Della Grace, who once photographed dildos, says she no longer needs to as ‘she “has the phallus”’. Adams’s argument is less black and white than this, her claim being that the image desublimates the female as static object of desire which the fetishistic economy depends on. The image instead shows women existing on their own terms as desiring subjects who can fetishise at will but whose fetishistic desires are mobile and theatrical and are exchanged in a relay of gazes and looks... This mobility of the fetish could be aligned with Bersani’s approach when he says, ‘the effort to re-find an original object would be an attempted return to a disposition in which no object would be privileged, in which sexuality can arise from any source (we can be stimulated by a breast, a thumb, a swing, a thought...), and in which finally any part of the body is a potential erotogenic zone.

  

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I am relieved beyond words that Ms Grace no longer has to photograph dildoes. catttt 1. Does "desublimate" mean "desacralize and desanctify"?

  • I am relieved beyond words that Ms Grace no longer has to photograph dildoes.
  • catttt 1.
  • Does "desublimate" mean "desacralize and desanctify"?
  • Hard to say.
  • I don't know what the image is.
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I am relieved beyond words that Ms Grace no longer has to photograph dildoes.

catttt1. Does "desublimate" mean "desacralize and desanctify"?

Hard to say. I don't know what the image is. But sublimation is a Freudian concept having to do with the expression of repressed desires in some seemingly unrelated form.

catttt2. Does

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