This is often neither an phantasm nor a paradox. it's a actual contradiction—women proceed to develop into lady. ”50 even though, resistance to this ubiquitous relief will be facilitated via serious exam of work in organization with subversive female perform, so one can study accurately the place Kahlo is contained as lady and in what methods her work problematize containment. In different phrases, the connection among the “real” and the “represented” Frida Kahlo is fluid. On one hand, they typically are thought of one within the related, diminished to a prescriptive paradigm. As Borsa notes, “Kahlo’s use of dress does name realization to visual appeal and self in a fashion that approximates spectacle and masquerade. ”51 160 DEVOURING FRIDA nevertheless, the aid of Kahlo to lady might be thought of towards the subversive capability inscribed in her work and enacted through her Nineteen Nineties admirers. Borsa as a result asserts that “body adornment doesn't simply or unavoidably suggest style or exotica—a wish to make your self the item of the gaze”; particularly, Kahlo’s work signify “a even more serious and political place. ”52 Borsa’s statement parallels Grosz’s advice that “feminists may well learn patriarchal texts opposed to the grain, so they can be actively labored upon and strategically harnessed for reasons for which they weren't meant. ”53 for instance, although fetishism is, within the Freudian feel, a strictly masculinist discourse, Grosz encourages its strength for feminist subversion. She notes that Freud clinically determined fetishism as a sexual “pathology” between males who, as boys coming into the oedipal section, couldn't “disavow” the notion of associating the castrated girl with the specter of their very own castration and for this reason displaced girl because the item of wish with one other item. within the strict Freudian experience the narcissistic girl, regardless of displacing the phallus along with her physique and disavowing symbolic castration, isn't a fetishist. girls are foreclosed from changing into fetishists simply because, already castrated, they aren't threatened by means of the notion of the castrated girl. but when one considers the method of fetishizing now not by way of narcissistic funding yet particularly when it comes to resisting socially invested heterosexual prescription (as the male fetishist does), the significance of Self-Portrait as Tehuana turns into a remark on instead of an indication of Kahlo’s purported “plea” for “Rivera’s love. ” The portray in actual fact implicates Kahlo because the fetishized item built in terms of the male gaze, however it does so excessively by means of containing Kahlo as an item marked on her brow together with her husband’s portrait. Compositional positive aspects will be forged opposed to the very interpretations that lessen the portray to “evidence” of Kahlo’s presumed agonizing overcompensation for her loss of well-being and lack of ability to take care of her prestige as an item of wish. this can be attainable if Kahlo is granted the privileged place of actively generating that means instead of mimicking patriarchal prescription.