Spank me ! (work in progress)

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31 October

This a spoilery, post-Freudian, would-be LGBTQ+-informed consideration (work in progress) of what is sub-textual in Etage X (2016) - here is a link to the non-spoilery account ['What happens on the inside of transgressions...']

Some assertions / assumptions (which are probably in inferential order) :

1. As with – in conventional terms – ‘going through’ a man’s pockets (and so his not being pleased, and saying so by questioningly using these words), a hand-bag denotes a private, inner sort of space that one ought not look into (and, although security personnel do, they will ask if one minds their opening it / one’s taking the contents out, etc.)

2. Of a kind, the hand-bag and the [trouser or jacket] pockets are both receptacles (maybe the hand-bag more obviously so* ?) on the level of the personal – do the receptacle and its contents feel inviolate or sacrosanct to the one to whom they belong (more so than one's unlocked desk-drawer ?) by virtue of the nature of the latter... ?

3. Dentists (and doctors) put things in our mouth – with our permission, and then may reassure us that they can and should continue (i.e. do they, formally, act to seek a renewal of the permission ?), even if we react badly to it and / or what they are doing is painful

4. Of all sorts of objects (a tunnel, for example), we talk of their having ‘a mouth’ – so, Pour it carefully into the mouth of the bottle - and this includes a bag : Please open the mouth of the bag more widely




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End-notes

* However, in German, eine Tasche is a pocket, and eine Handtasche a hand-bag (or a purse)… [And it goes on, with ein Taschentuch being Tuch (‘cloth’) + Taschen (‘pockets’, a seeming plural for an item that can only occupy one pocket) - a little as in English, except that we keep with hand, and not pocket).]



inner

An agreed or negotiated transgression of the norms, acceptable because invisible, but still – even if pleasurably – to be punished.


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