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    purely relative “nothing to sec" that the male fetishist sees the ‘woman’s sex only in terns of an absence, a “lack.” All men ate Bodies-Cities fetishists to some degree, but few of them are fall-blown clinical fetishists. Most men appreciate the existential fat of feminine sex- ualityasa fie, albeitone which snot be grasped quiteas simply 2 vee ar eal coh nocace whites Ladder Neb Elizabeth Grosz forest” until they closed their eyes in order to imagine it; even then they could not be sure, for there are other forests to negotiate, not least amongst these the “forest of signs” which isthe unconscious. Sooner or later, as in Newton's image, we open our eyes, come back to a tangible reality: here, that of the woman's body. That Which i physical, chat which reflects light-which has here efits trace on the photosensitive emulsion, But what the man behind the camera will never know is what her sexuality means t0 her, although alifetime may be devoted to the enquiry. Perhaps this is the reason why, finally, Helmut Newton chooses to stage his per- verse display under the gaze of his wife I Congruent Counterparts FoR NuMpeR 2A NUMBER OF shave been involved in research on th Thave been interested in ch me ‘of the body so that we can abandon oe the body has usual Fess Gn 'as usually been understood=mind a Sages aust ouside, experience and social context, subject berwech nial ane other, and underlying these, ihe opposigen soot eget tile. This: “steppes een occa HEL “xual specificity may cnet gt ae alee on of subjc- 8 the locus and site Ina “deconstruc Ppositions take their ant ones. rightful place at the very heart of the domin, 241 ba scent work has involved a kind of curniny id uta ute ofthe sexed body, questioning hove is psychically constructed, and con ‘ion of the body’s sur= versely, how the processes of social inscript y's sur face eae pan psychical interior. In other words, i Ie attempted to problematize the opposition between the inside an i the outside by looking at the outside of the body from the point o view of the inside, and looking at the inside of ‘the body from be point of view of the outside, thus reexamining and questioning the distinction between biology and culture, exploring the way in which euleureconstucts the biological order ints own image, sway in which the psychosocial simulates and produces the ze ; Va Sh Th nme in exo te was wh Be body is psychically, socially, sexually, an a eee produced, and the ways, in turn, Pee Bane ibs i sociocultural environment so- eae wane rel itera one that this environment both produces and reflects the form 3 : {interests of the body. This relation of introjections and Fae selon feback elton im which neither the body nee ganically unified ae true very orien of ta cosy a Ene Nighenorder unity or encompassing totality that { will try to eaneeace in this paper.) The body and Sevieneee aa rode each xe fr th hyper as mods mul e shich have overtaken and transformed whatever ect ee, ei ge © sr: the city is made anc ‘ay have had into the image of the other: tt a eever into the smuleram ofthe Body, andthe body, in its a tified,” urbanized as a distinctively met= transformed, tun er ac have negeted or colong-and Tam delighted to have the opportanityhete to begin to rectify hiss the const tative and mutvally defining relation between bodies and cies The city is one of the eruial factors inthe socal produetion of (sexed) corporalty: the built environment provides the context and coordinates for most contemporary Wester and, today, East enn forms ofthe body, even for rural bois ae ae entury defines the countryside, “the rural,” as the underside aera af rtan development. Te city as become the

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