The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 2 potx

... part, for the recent increase in the num- bers of patients requesting cosmetic plastic surgery who have previously undergone cosmetic surgery procedures on other parts of their bodies” (23 1). What ... toys like en- doscopic lasers and other miracle-making tools of science will stave off for us the necessary encounter with the reality of the flesh—and ul- timatel...

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... the emergence of the female nude as the favorite subject of nineteenth-century painting, which sug- gests not only the new centrality of the female body as the object of the gaze but also the ... surgeons do. They see the defect from the other side of the room. The defect (or deformity, as they term it) hails them, flags them down, implores their assistance...

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... happens on the surface of the body as well the love for the penis supplanting the object relation. The deception at the heart of Freudian accounts of sexual difference, then, would be that the overvalued ... in the other hand or the penis grows from the other orifice, as it were, and Rose is the re- combinant nightmare fallout of plastic surgery s otherwise c...

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... called the cosmetic- surgery solution the aging body-in-masquerade” (“From Virtual Cy- borgs” 165). The surface of the body,” she points out, “is cut and stretched to disguise the surface of the ... that the surface of the body enacts the object relation it- self. The mirror reflected to these women the image of their tortured histories with their parents. But...

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... difference of sexes; of the birth and growth of children; how the fa ther doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child; how all the life and cares of the mother were ... yet separated off from the infant by the infant. Gradually the separating-off of the not-me from the me takes place, and the pace varies according...

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... compromise the authenticity of the original. Although the original work is untouched, the quality of its presence is always depreciated” (22 1). The authenticity of a thing is the essence of all ... however, there is a profound effect on the culture of linking cosmetic surgery to the faces and bodies of ac- tors. This is their depth and their surface—what’s...

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... are the re- alization of the cultural fantasy that gave rise to plastic surgery in the first place. 23 The impossibility of the surgery the film represents is ir- relevant, because in the end the ... Actors turned to surgery in order to transform themselves into camera-ready images, which yoked the history of cosmetic surgery to the history of acting. T...

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... adore their surgeons often visit other surgeons, be- cause when the nature of the subject is a certain experience of perfec- tion, it’s hard to believe you’ve found it in either the result or the ... in part because of the incommensurability of the outcome to the expectations that people can become addicted to surgery. The ad- diction is built into the practice....

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... complain. For the most part, people who live in my region of the country, the Southeast, keep their surgeries to themselves if they are satisfied. I also looked at cosmetic surgery dis- cussion ... / 321 Ewen, Stuart, and Elizabeth Ewen. Channels of Desire: Mass Images and the Shap- ing of American Consciousness. 19 82. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 19 92. The Eye...

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... celebrity surgery, 23 6– 37; Diana’s death as show of, 313n10; and ego ideal, 160–61; and identification, 22 1 26 , 22 2; and look stealing, 22 6 –31; and stalking, 22 1– 24 , 312n1 aging: of American ... assessment, 29 1n2. See also beauty; body image art ist, cosmetic surgeon as, 85, 92 1 02, 29 9n 22 Art of Man, The (Man), 83 Ash Wednesday (film), 159, 21 5, 21...

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