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Catttt Posted 4 years ago
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Popular readings of Magritte’s work being...

Does the highlighted "being" in the following context refer to "popular readings of Magritte’s work" or "Magritte’s work". I think the former. Am I right?


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Contrary to popular readings of Magritte’s work being bound up with the trauma he experienced aged 13 of seeing his mother’s corpse after she had drowned, and a subsequent repressed sexuality, he describes the poetic dynamic of constructing a painting which remarkably echoes Freud’s description of condensation...

  

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catttt Does the highlighted "being" in the following context refer to "popular readings of Magritte’s work" or "Magritte’s work". I think the former. Am I right?

  • catttt Does the highlighted "being" in the following context refer to "popular readings of Magritte’s work" or "Magritte’s work".
  • I think the former.
  • Am I right?
  • Yes, you're right.
  • CJ
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cattttDoes the highlighted "being" in the following context refer to "popular readings of Magritte’s work" or "Magritte’s work". I think the former. Am I right?

Yes, you're right.

CJ

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