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la pulsión escópica

English translation: the scopic drive

21:55 Jul 1, 2023
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Psychology
Spanish term or phrase: la pulsión escópica
Work by an Argentine artist:

A través de esas fuentes, Martín construye una poética propia donde prima lo onírico, el misterio, la pulsión escópica, el fetiche, pero también cierto humor e incredulidad a la hora de apropiarse de esas imágenes cargadas de glamour y clichés, tan propias de la cultura del espectáculo.

Though I vaguely remember the term from college in the 80s, "optical drive" on the internet is now all about electronics! Makes me think I am misremembering, or have been left behind, or both!!
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 02:29
English translation:the scopic drive
Explanation:
buenas coincidencias

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3 +5the scopic drive
O G V
4 +1scopic attraction
Muriel Vasconcellos
3 +1Scopophilia: an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person (Freud)
Erzsébet Czopyk
3the visual imperative
Adrian MM.


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19 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
the scopic drive


Explanation:
buenas coincidencias

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https://www.google.com/search?q="scopic drive"&new...

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsión#:~:text=Pulsión escópi...

O G V
Spain
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agree  Mareike Seifert: I agree
51 mins
agree  philgoddard: I think it's a pretentious way of saying voyeurism.
8 hrs
agree  neilmac: Agree with phil :-)
10 hrs
agree  liz askew: https://ore.exeter.ac.uk/repository/bitstream/handle/10871/1...
23 hrs
agree  Andrew Bramhall: Also agree with PG;
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Scopophilia: an aesthetic pleasure drawn from looking at an object or a person (Freud)


Explanation:
Freud relacionó la pulsión escópica con el afán de saber.

La crítica de los 70' articula sus análisis cinematográficos a partir de lecturas e interpretaciones con recurso al nivel inconsciente.3 En esta crítica el “régimen escópico” del cine conduce a mecanismos de voyeurismo y fetichismo: el cine deviene una máquina deseante al poner en escena la “pulsión escópica”, que según la lectura Laca consiste en la incorporación de la mirada y la voz en el reconocimiento temprano y concreto de ser reconocido por la madre; en el estadio del espejo de Lacan la madre ya está implicada en la percepción que el niño hace de sí mismo; está presente a sostenerlo. El resultado es una localización del sujeto en el campo del Otro, lo social. A partir de entonces, la pulsión escópica (asociada con el ojo involucra esencialmente la constitución del sujeto en relación con los otros: «en la pulsión, de lo que se trata es de hacerse ver. La actividad de la pulsión se concentra en este hacerse».4 Así, en el fantasma escópico, el sujeto existe sólo en relación con una mirada imaginaria, la del Otro - en este caso, la madre -.

Con esta noción de la mirada, la crítica cinematográfica adquiere fuerza, pero aún resta una dificultad teórica, en tanto confunden la «visión» con la “mirada”.
https://www.observacionesfilosoficas.net/ezquiziadelamirada....

LA PULSIÓN ESCÓPICA: LA MIRADA.

Mientras Freud entendía que las pulsiones parciales se unificaban al primado de la zona genital, en la época de la pubertad; Lacan toma distancia de ello, y dice que la pulsión es siempre parcial. Y en tanto que el deseo es uno e indiviso, la pulsión es representación particular de éste. Quedando explicitada su teoría del "Circuito Pulsional", donde parte de los cuatro elementos característicos freudianos en relación a la definición de pulsión, expresa que: no sólo hay empuje, fin, objeto y meta. Sino que existe un circuito cerrado entre dichos elementos.
https://www.elsigma.com/arte-y-psa/miguel-angel-la-pulsion-e...

Sigmund Freud used the term scopophilia to describe, analyse, and explain the concept of Schaulust, the pleasure in looking,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopophilia

Erzsébet Czopyk
Hungary
Local time: 07:29
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Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian

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agree  neilmac: And " scopophilic drive" segués neatly into the "fetiche" item that follows it...
10 hrs
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
scopic attraction


Explanation:
Examples:

Jan Avgikos on Judith Barry

Artforum
https://www.artforum.com › print › reviews › judith-b...
which I pass into and out of **via simple scopic attraction to a glittering surface** or seductive form. Beckett's words filter back in: “No trace anywhere of life, ...

water economy of the spadefoot toad
https://www.jstor.org › stable
**scopic attraction of sand particles* give sandy soil a greater water potential with a given moisture content and permit a greater rate of water movement.

Romantic Sobriety - Project MUSE

Johns Hopkins University
https://muse.jhu.edu › oa_monograph › chapter › pdf
**a scopic attraction incisively portrayed in Ford Madox Brown's 1873 portrait of. Haidée and Zoe first coming upon the unconscious Juan (fig. 8.1).**

FASHIONING CHASTITY: BRITISH MARRIAGE PLOTS ...

OhioLINK
https://etd.ohiolink.edu › send_file › send
by KF Oestreich · 2008 — word “fancy” to describe **Adam's scopic attraction to Hetty: she is a fantasy while. Dinah, physically, is “reality.” Dinah's plain black gown makes her look ...
Early Cinema in Russia and its Cultural Reception

ebin.pub
https://ebin.pub › download › early-russian-cinem...
close to **the viewer's eyes was the purest case of scopic attraction**. The final scene of Mesguich's documentary on pearl divers (1909) showed black faces ...


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Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:29
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 99

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agree  neilmac
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21 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
the visual imperative


Explanation:
> la pulsión - drive, Diccionario Mosby de Medicina, SPA/ENG/SPA

Having been weaned on Prof. Sigmund Freud, Wilhelm Reich, Theodor Adorno, Erich Fromm and Melanie Klein etc., I am afraid or afeard in Irish that the literal rendering as 'scopic drive' means aboslutely nothing to me.

Example sentence(s):
  • APOLLINAIRE'S 'LE LIVRE' AND THE VISUAL. IMPERATIVE. In 917 Guillaume Apollinaire published thirteen handwritten visual poems

    Reference: http://www.proz.com/kudoz/spanish-to-english/art-arts-crafts...
    Reference: http://www.researchgate.net/publication/303434207_The_Visual...
Adrian MM.
Austria
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Andrew Bramhall: What, and not on Freud's greatest adversary, Carl Jung? Also, your "Irish" comment has me completely baffled;
14 hrs
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