Oneself/ourselves
1. Does "autonomous from the person" mean "independent from people"?
2. Does "oneself" in this context mean "ourselves"? Why has not the author used "ourselves" here?
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Psychoanalyst, curator and cultural critic Suely Rolnik asserts that the artist has the ‘privilege to incarnate in the work the perception of life that pulsates in things, autonomous from the person’. These pulsations are not harmonious – in fact they may be violent – but their value lies in their capacity to reawaken in us the pleasure of making oneself disappear in the mirror.
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catttt 1. Does "autonomous from the person" mean "independent from people"? Sorry, but first we would have to know what a perception that pulsates is, and we don't.
- catttt 1.
- Does "autonomous from the person" mean "independent from people"?
- Sorry, but first we would have to know what a perception that pulsates is, and we don't.
- Also, "autonomous from" is new to me.
- Things are simply autonomous, or maybe autonomous within another thing.
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catttt1. Does "autonomous from the person" mean "independent from people"?
Sorry, but first we would have to know what a perception that pulsates is, and we don't. Also, "autonomous from" is new to me. Things are simply autonomous, or maybe autonomous within another thing. All the google hits I get for "autonomous from" are about Hong Kong, so the use seems
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