The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - part 4 pps

... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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. Th...

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... of Plastic Surgery. ” American Journal of Surgery 25 (19 34) : 5 54 –58. Vaisse, Pierre. “Portrait of Society: The Anonymous and the Famous.” A New 346 / Index cosmetic surgery (continued) culture ... dominant, 48 49 culture of cosmetic surgery, 49 –50; and celebrity culture, 260–61; and de - mocratization of beauty, 52; social influences on, 66 Cultur...

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... (perhaps the psychiatrists are the ‘inte- rior decorators’ of medicine)” (Goldwyn, Operative Note 44 ). This no- tion of the “spaces” of subjectivity, acted out by the very practice of plastic surgery, ... account, in part, for the recent increase in the num- bers of patients requesting cosmetic plastic surgery who have previously undergone cosmetic surgery...

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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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... 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 hidden (secret) and at the same ... compromise the authenticity of the original. Although the original work is untouched, the quality of its presence is always depreciated” (221). The authenticity of...

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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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... Postcards from the Edge. Actress Suzanne overhears the head of wardrobe complaining to the director about the difficulties of tailoring clothing for the actress’s out -of- shape body. They can’t ... measure themselves against the image of their social supe- riors” (49 ). 8. At the same time, the news that the camera could lie made getting pho- tographed much more popu...

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