Does the highlighted sentence imply:
"It is useful to remember that the source of this absence is a symbolic feeling of feminine castration inside when we start to understand that Klein with her biologic point of view knows women's real absence of a penis the main reason for the feeling of feminine castration in them" ?
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Kjar’s initial motivation to paint supposedly began with an incident in which her painter brother-in-law took back a painting he had loaned her, the empty space left on the wall resonating with Kjar’s own sense of emptiness. Klein aligns this feeling of emptiness with her view of female castration, which relates to the empty space the woman feels in her body deriving from the girl’s Oedipal frustration, which leaves her with an ‘unsatisfied desire for motherhood’. In Kjar’s case, the feeling that there is something lacking in her body motivates her to produce a series of paintings in response to the blank space on the wall, which, it should be noted, is only recognised as an absence when something that was there was taken away. The fact that this absence was brought into being by a symbolic gesture is useful to keep in mind in the face of Klein’s tendency to resort to biology and to map feminine castration onto the girl’s real absence of a penis.
This castration business is an all-pupose can of worms, isn't it? You can take it anywhere you want it to go. I could not figure out what the symbolic gesture is.
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This castration business is an all-pupose can of worms, isn't it? You can take it anywhere you want it to go.
I could not figure out what the symbolic gesture is. I guess it is the taking back of the painting by her brother, but I don't see what is symbolic about that or how it is a gesture. Anyway, the idea seems to be that avant-garde thinking in art criticism steers us away from art t