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more research

baddolly — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:28:35 +0000

rodin

classical sculpture

baddolly — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:06:55 +0000

degas little dancer

maillol dina

summer met

aristide maillol

2009-2010 research

baddolly — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:03:53 +0000

debra fritts

rich bowman

edward munch madonna

tom durham

2009-2010 college work

baddolly — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:52:12 +0000

chagall nude

finished puppet

baddolly — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:46:09 +0000

my little girl

oops i forgot

baddolly — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:23:26 +0000

sabine brunner

text

baddolly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:39:41 +0000

collage

baddolly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:31:32 +0000

marina bychkova

guatemalan worry dolls for children

tibetan girl

indian girl

valli dolls

poetry

baddolly — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:16:59 +0000

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow—
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand—
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep—while I weep!
O God! can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

– THE END –

edgar allen poe

fetish theory

baddolly — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:16:45 +0000

n 1905, in his Three Essays on Sexuality, Freud offered one theory to account for this behavior. In his view, the fetish originated with the male child’s horror of female castration. Confronted with the mother’s lack of a penis, the child represses this lack and finds some object to stand in for and substitute for the missing penis, thus relieving the anxiety and restoring in a displaced way) the erotic attachment to the female. The act involves not only finding a substitute object, but also a subsequent act of forgetting the act of substitution. For Freud, the fetish is a kind of creative denial, a sort of magical thinking that helps the fetishist ward off anxiety and restore a sense of well-being, all the while producing a kind of amnesia. Of course, this theory does not really help explain why some men become sexual fetishists and others do not. Nor does it explain how or why a woman might develop a fetish. (The French psychoanalyst Lacan added some interesting twists in explicating this theory, but since his theories are not widely known outside of academia, I won’t pursue them here.)

Freudian Model: “For Freud, fetishism implies both the recognition and the disavowal of reality and the constitution of a substitute.” (Sarah Kofman)

He initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party. by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. hans bellmer