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Does the highlighted "speaking" in the text below refer to "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work" or "Bourgeois"?
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On a more private scale, the French artist Louise Bourgeois used the motif of the house continually in her work, speaking passionately about the disturbing familial relationships that structured her own personal psychic life, such as her father’s affair with her English tutor and the death of her mother in 1932 when Bourgeois was 20. However, while Bourgeois’s statements show a keen awareness of Freud’s ideas, as well as the ideas of his follower Melanie Klein, the narration of her personal life reading almost like a case history, one has to be careful not to take her explications of her work for granted.
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catttt Does the highlighted "speaking" in the text below refer to "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work" or "Bourgeois"? It's hard to say. It seems like the writer meant it to be "Bourgeois", but the sense of the sentence leads me toward "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work".
- catttt Does the highlighted "speaking" in the text below refer to "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work" or "Bourgeois"?
- It's hard to say.
- It seems like the writer meant it to be "Bourgeois", but the sense of the sentence leads me toward "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work".
- What seems to settle the matter is that later on in the paragraph she mentions her explications, which would be verbal, figuratively "speaking".
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cattttDoes the highlighted "speaking" in the text below refer to "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work" or "Bourgeois"?
It's hard to say. It seems like the writer meant it to be "Bourgeois", but the sense of the sentence leads me toward "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work". What seems to settle the matter is t
0cattttDoes the highlighted "speaking" in the text below refer to "the motif of the house continually used in Bourgeois's work" or "Bourgeois"?
Just "Bourgeois" as I see it, because later there's a reference to "Bourgeois’s statements". Besides, I don't see a house motif as something capable of speaking passionately, let alone giving details about he
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