Does "soldered" in the following context mean "healed" or "joined"?
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She says, ‘[t]he first blow against the monolithic accumulation of traditional film conventions [...] is to free the look of the camera into its materiality in time and space and the look of the audience into dialectics, passionate detachment. There is no doubt that this destroys the satisfaction, pleasure and privilege of the “invisible guest”’, meaning the fantasmatic spectator whose narcissistic fantasies and desires are soldered by images.
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