Romance fiction

1. Does "to explore the anxieties, desires and dilemmas of middle-aged female experiences that intersect with the worlds of fashion, medicine and romance fiction." mean "to represent the anxieties, desires and dilemmas of middle-aged women in relation to the worlds of fashion, medicine and romance fiction"?

2. Does "medicine" here mean "medical science" and does "romance fiction" mean "fictional romantic stories like romantic novels" or "romantic imaginations"?

3. Does "all this negative material from the annals of psychiatry" mean "all these sad and undesirable concepts and materials from the field of psychiatry"?

Text:

Interim consists of 15 photo-laminated images of women’s clothing juxtaposed with 15 photo-laminated images of text, handwritten ‘stories’ silkscreened onto plexiglass. Each image of clothing is paired with an image of text, the pairs being divided into five sections, with each section containing three sets of paired images. The five sections are named after the classifications the French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot gave to the positions acted out by his hysterical patients in his clinic at Salpêtrière, where Freud studied in 1885. The five classifications are Menacé, Appel, Supplication, Erotisme and Extase, and correspond to Kelly’s choice of clothing – respectively, a leather jacket, a bag, shoes, a nightdress and a blouse. In each set, the item of clothing undergoes a mini narrative mimicking the stages of a hysterical attack – the item is presented folded in the first image, opened in the second image, and tied up in knots in the third. The accompanying texts use a fictional firstperson narrative to explore the anxieties, desires and dilemmas of middle-aged female experiences that intersect with the worlds of fashion, medicine and romance fiction. A contemporary reader might again ask why represent all this negative material from the annals of psychiatry and from the commodification of desire in consumer capitalism?