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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
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To valorise fetishism for the woman

1. Does "to valorise fetishism for the woman" mean "to make fetishism valuable for women"?


2. Does "by refracting it through theory" mean "by analyzing it through theory"?


3. Does "hence her adaption and reinvention of" mean "the result of which is her adaption and reinvention of ..."?



Context:

The point of the work was not simply to valorise fetishism for the woman but to create a critical perspective on it by refracting it through theory, hence her adaption and reinvention of Jacques Lacan’s mathemes in some parts of the work, the abstraction of which offsets the potential sentimentality of, for example, the plaster casts of the child’s hands in Documentation IV.

  

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catttt 1. Does "to valorise fetishism for the woman" mean "to make fetishism valuable for women"? I guess so.

  • catttt 1.
  • Does "to valorise fetishism for the woman" mean "to make fetishism valuable for women"?
  • I guess so.
  • catttt 2.
  • Does "by refracting it through theory" mean "by analyzing it through theory"?
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catttt1. Does "to valorise fetishism for the woman" mean "to make fetishism valuable for women"?

I guess so.

catttt2. Does "by refracting it through theory" mean "by analyzing it through theory"?

Something like that, I guess.

catttt3. Does "hence her adaption and reinvention of" mean "th

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