Identification between

Does "partial identifications between male and female" mean "defining your identity something between male and female" and does "blur identifications between what is inside and what is outside" mean "defining your identity as something that is between inside and outside"?

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Narcissian pools of reflection, while escaping the binary logic of stable categories of self and other in favour of morphing and becoming, are also tinged with the abject nature of bodily fluids and viscera. This psychic fact has to do with the nature of pre-Oedipal space, which has been theorised by the psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva, who put forward the notion of a pre-Oedipal psychic space of fluidity called the imaginary or the semiotic. This psychic space is populated with partial identifications between male and female rather than definitive gender positions, akin to the expansive subjectivity we saw in Rist’s work in the previous chapter, and is, on one hand, dominated by the joy in being.

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While up to a point Acconci’s probing of his self-image can seem to trap the self and reverberate in a continuous dead end that begins and ends with the self, the continual probing can also be seen as an attempt to dismantle the self and blur identifications between what is inside and what is outside. The continuous aggressive posturing of the ‘I’ and the ‘You’ by Acconci in his video performances desires the breakdown of those categories.