Sense register
What is the difference between "sense register" and "sense" in the following context? Does "sense register" have any specific meaning?
Context:
Florence’s argument is that while certain meanings, both visual and verbal, anchor us in relation to a picture, at the same time the force of the metonymic chain of equivalencies generated in the series unhinges us from this fixity and opens our perception to the dedifferentiated sense register of unconscious primary process, which loosens our attachment to sense. (Secondary process is more conscious and bound up with the differentiated sense register of vision, i.e. making clear-cut distinctions between things) (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh)
Top answer
Your writer is swimming in a sea of esoteric terms from psychoanalysis and art criticism. "Sense register" is probably a term of art from one of those. I tried searching online, but I lost interest.
- Your writer is swimming in a sea of esoteric terms from psychoanalysis and art criticism.
- "Sense register" is probably a term of art from one of those.
- I tried searching online, but I lost interest.
- I guess she means that we stop trying to make sense of what we are seeing.
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Your writer is swimming in a sea of esoteric terms from psychoanalysis and art criticism. "Sense register" is probably a term of art from one of those. I tried searching online, but I lost interest. I guess she means that we stop trying to make sense of what we are seeing.
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