16 In this light, female fetishism–the significance of girl to “contest reality” and…
16 In this light, feminine fetishism–the significance of girl to “contest reality” and to “deny that she’s lacking a dick”–can be interpreted in Acker’s belated act as a disavowal of lobotomy as a type of castration with which females (but not just ladies) are threatened.
As a result, it really is indistinguishable through the declaration that is performative of very very own possibility. Just like, in accordance with Butler, the phallus attains its status being a performative statement (Bodies 83), so too Acker’s announcement of feminine fetishism, read because the culmination of her pointed assaults on penis envy, situates the feminine fetish into the interpretive space opened between your penis and also the phallus as privileged signifier. This statement defetishizes the “normal” fetishes during the foot of the Lacanian and Freudian types of feminine heterosexuality: for Lacan, your penis whilst the biological signifier of “having” the phallus, as well as for Freud, the infant because the only appropriate replacement for that shortage, itself a signifier of an solely feminine biological ability.