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1. What do you think "the latter" refers to in the provided text below? I think the only option available is "destruction". What is your idea? But, if so, I think "loss as destruction" should have been "loss and destruction". Am I right?

2. Does "can be re-enacted by the artist in the register of materials" imply "can be recreated by the artist by means of materials"?

Context:

Nixon is here alluding to the parity of part objects in the Kleinian universe of phantasy: penis, breasts, milk – all are objects of desire and attack. Although Klein’s ‘emphasis on the importance of the mother in infantile phantasy [...] should not be mistaken as a reconceptualisation of sexual difference’, Nixon’s reading of artworks through the lens of Kleinian phantasy does open up a more fluid play of difference reminiscent of the mobility of the fetish that I explored in the Chapter 3, whereby objects are exchanged in a relay of equivalences, the penis becoming a part object alongside other objects rather than a privileged signifier of the phallus.For Nixon, this photograph portrays a phantasy of turning psychoanalysis against itself, using the part object against the phallus and humour against the fetish. What emerges in this account is another possibility for the female artist that acknowledges the play of internal aggressive forces which are undifferentiated by gender rather than always already solidified in a coded gendered body. Subjectivity is still structured through loss as destruction, but the latter is also generative of replacements that are not substitute objects for a missing penis, as in the Freudian register, but emerge from the visceral actions of biting, sucking and cutting, which are imbued with psychic desire and can be re-enacted by the artist in the register of materials.