This refusal does not peter into ...

1. Does "but where this refusal does not peter into" imply "but this refusal is not seen in"?

2. Does "the mutely scintillating simulated flesh of Sherman’s prosthetic parodies" mean "the silent bodily representations of Sherman's unreal parodies"

3. Does "after the refusal, either through unknowingness or through hiding, of an exchange of looks between the young man and the young woman" mean "after that the woman and the man in the video do not see each other simultaneously, which would be because they are not aware of the presence of each other or they want to hide themselves from each other"?

4. Does "in which only one of them could have been triumphant" mean "if they had looked at each other simultaneously, only one of them would have become the winner of this eye conflict"?

5. Does "In this scenario also lies a reference to the Western duel" mean "if they had looked at each other simultaneously, it would have reminded of the western duel (but, as in the video they do not look at each other, it does not remind us of Western duel)"?

Context:

The relation here is one of attunement, or what Bersani calls ‘a reciprocal attention to the other’s becoming’, in which narcissism is shared rather than generating the paranoid drama of setting the object outside the self external to the ego. Tykkä’s film can be positioned here as encapsulating a form of narcissism that is liberated from the dictates of the ego ideal, but where this refusal does not peter into the obscenity of either the mutely scintillating simulated flesh of Sherman’s prosthetic parodies or the flat unreflecting shadows in Bacon. Tykkä’s amorphous white screen comes after the refusal, either through unknowingness or through hiding, of an exchange of looks between the young man and the young woman which would, due to the dialectic of narcissistic desire, have created a dynamic in the field of vision in which only one of them could have been triumphant. (In this scenario also lies a reference to the Western duel: ‘this town ain’t big enough for the two of us.’)