Which underlies figuration and specularisation
Does "which underlies figuration and specularisation" in the following text mean "which is a non-visual hidden layer under the formation of visual shapes and forms"?
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The pre-Oedipal primary processes of the semiotic are linked to the basic pulsions of early development which are predominantly anal and oral. For Kristeva, these pulsions are gathered up in a space she calls the chora, a term she appropriates from Plato’s Timaeus, where ‘he defines it as an enclosed womb-like space which at the same time is “an invisible and formless being” capable of receiving all things and partaking of the intelligible. Kristeva insists that the chora is neither a sign nor a position, but a mobile dynamic which underlies figuration and specularisation and is analogous with vocal and kinetic rhythm.’
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I was so happy. She actually defines "chora", and I was reading along thinking I was getting it. And then she goes and pulls two made-up words out of thin air and defines them with two made-up terms.
- I was so happy.
- She actually defines "chora", and I was reading along thinking I was getting it.
- And then she goes and pulls two made-up words out of thin air and defines them with two made-up terms.
- She uses the jargon of psychoanalysis, and unless you are conversant in it, your guess is as good as mine.
- But I would say that "underlie" is not literal here, and the chora is not a hidden layer but a prerequisite, a foundation, a generator of some of the processes of development.
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I was so happy. She actually defines "chora", and I was reading along thinking I was getting it. And then she goes and pulls two made-up words out of thin air and defines them with two made-up terms. She uses the jargon of psychoanalysis, and unless you are conversant in it, your guess is as good as mine. But I would say that "underlie" is not literal here, and the chora is not a hidden layer
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