RE220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Ethnic Plastic Surgery, Psychological Repression, Blepharoplasty
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Concept applied to embodiment ranges from makeovers (hair, clothing, makeup) to plastic surgery surgery aimed at bodily modification. Ethnic plastic surgery or ethnic modification plastic surgery e. x rhinoplasty and blepharoplasty. Christine overall, prof of philosophy at queens and question of ethnic vs gender modification. Logic vs emotion > desire for happiness post surgery. Not what we see its also about tactility, feeling, distraction. The idea that motivates us as individual that is something called the unconscious. Notion of the unconscious, big field of experiences. Unconscious is detached form any kind of religious belief system. Having a sense of ones autonomy of a human being, it is possibly to gain a better understanding of self through, psycho theory. Lots of people got together to walk through fire. A great example of fa metaphor for empowerment in which is all about the feeling or pressure of it, the tactility, the idea.
