Bhaba Self For The Object Analysis

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In the binary of nature and culture, culture refers the power formation. Culture is male representative of rule and regulation and in its worst it is the representation of the desire to control and formulate the identity of ‘other’. This urge forms the basics binaries of human existence- Human and animal existence as Inter level categorization and male and female intra level of categorization. These desires are deep rooted and socially volatile. Female existence as nature in the culture of ‘other’ determines their fates. The self and independent notion of self for the ‘object’ lost its significance in the myriad signifiers prevailed in society about the ‘object’. The gaze becomes an external element and makes it journey inward towards the psychic repression. As Bhabha refers- The elision of the eye, represented in a narration of negation and repetition- no....no...never – insists that the phrase of identity cannot be spoke, except by putting the eye/I in the impossible position of enunciation. To see a missing person, or to look at invisibleness, is to emphasize the subject’s transitive demand for a direct object of self-reflection, a point of presence that would maintain its privileged enunciatory position qua subject. (67) To break this all pervasive panopticon of gaze it’s compulsory for women to rise above these male hegemonic forces. If she rejects these forces and ideology, she will face same rejection and if she wants to break these invisible prison houses she should be ready to face the reclusion. In both cases she has to accept reclusion as her destiny. However, her reclusion from male hegemony can helps her to break from her objectification. …show more content…

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