By Jennifer Friedlander
Feminist and psychoanalytic research of spectatorship.
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As Freud affirms, boys will construct “substitutes for this penis which they feel is missing in women” (195). These substitutes for the missing maternal phallus often take the form of metonymies of woman. The overvaluing or “fetishizing” of another body part such as the foot, hair, or breast functions as compensation for her “deficiency,” and in turn, allays boys’ castration anxiety. But, Doane argues, this comforting mechanism of distanciation, belonging exclusively to the province of the masculine scopic regime, is unavailable to the female spectator, thus encumbering her with the problem of what Doane calls her “over-proximity” to the cinematic image.
He argues that such an unveiling will demonstrate “that all penises are inadequate to the phallus” (Lehman 10). ” (119). This question is addressed poignantly by Susan Bordo, who recalls that, due to a combination of her father’s exceptional modesty, her lack of broth- Film Theory, Sexual In-Difference, and Lacan’s Tale of Two Toilets 43 ers, and the absence of penises within visual cultural imagery, she hit puberty without having seen a penis. The mystique surrounding the penis was so strong that when she eventually saw one, she expressed incredulity that this “could possibly be the same thing that my father was hiding” (Bordo MB 17).
To be specific, the analysand’s signifiers “result . . in a confrontation with the limits of . . knowledge, and thus with the part of the truth that lies beyond verbalization” (Verhaeghe 45). According to Verhaeghe such encounters are akin to the crisis that precipitates sexuation. To be specific, the signifiers that the subject encounters in the analytic situation confront him/her with the irreparable lack that lies at the heart of the symbolic. This is the same lack where the infantile search for knowledge came to a standstill for the same reasons: the symbolic sexual identity .
