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A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another....

One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object -- and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.
J. Berger

Pure Jouissance!

Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth.
J. Baldwin

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Barbie (2023) if it were good:

[...]The Oedipus complex, instead of being, as in Lacan, a necessary stage in the develop­ ment of the human individual, is seen by Deleuze and Guattari as the only effective means of controlling the libido in capitalist society, So Freudianism plays a key role under capitalism: it is both the discoverer of the mechanisms of desire, and the organiser, through its acceptance of the Oedipus complex, of its control.
For at a time when capitalist individualisation is under­ mining the family by depriving it of essential social functions, the Oedipus complex represents the internalisation of the family institutions, it is a policeman of the mind.
Deleuze and Guattari develop their analysis of the relationship between the Oedipalised family and the needs of capitalist society through their theory of entropy (increasing disorder), using concepts borrowed from French anthropological debate.
Desiring machines can be coded or decoded: coding puts infor­mation about the society and its social language into place, decoding decreases social information. Decoding represents an increase in entropy and it results in society losing control of the machine's interconnections, or "flux".
Schizophrenia represents the boundary of decoding. Deleuze and Guattari suggest that as society becomes more "civilised" (capitalist), the level of code in the desiring machines decreases; society struggles against the progressive loss of shared meaning as it would be destroyed by total decoding (schizophrenia). The family is therefore con­structed as an artificially "re-territorialised" unit where social control has been relocated and in which forms of social organi­sation can be reproduced. The father becomes a familial despot, and the mother, for example, an image for earth and country.
Thus the privatised "individual" that psychoanalysis studies within the Oedipal family unit is an artificial construct, whose social function is to trap and control the disorder that haunts social life under capitalism.
J. Weeks; Against Oedipus