Doing violence to an image

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1. Do you thing "parodically" in the following context means "in a fun and hilarious way" or "imitatively"?

2. Does "doing violence to the image" mean "being aggressive and violent to the image" or "simply breaking the principles of the image"?

Context:

If the operations of the dream-work led Freud to the untranslatable navel of the dream, then it could be said that Stezaker’s operations of cutting into and removing parts from images parodically reverses this process, his process of subtraction almost doing violence to the image so that it can be liberated from its obsolescence and gain a new significance.

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catttt1. Do you thing "parodically" in the following context means "in a fun and hilarious way" or "imitatively"?

Stezaker's work is a parody of Freud's. A parody mocks its subject in imitating it. That might strike us funny or not.

catttt2. Does "doing violence to the image" mean "being aggressive and violent to the image" or "simply breaking the principles of the image"?

She says, "almost doing violence", meaning, I suppose, that he attacks the image like a lunatic might slash the Mona Lise with a knife, almost.

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