In relation to fashion, psycho analysis can be applied in several ways.
The fetish or fetishism is a well explored area in fashion design and scopophilia can be applied to alot of clothing.
Narcissim can also be applied to this, wearing clothes that make you feel attractive to the opposite sex egotistically speaking will make you feel good.
Alot of the topics covered in this lecture can be applied more to conceptual avant garde fashion as apposed to more wearable items.
For example the abject. Basically meaning what is outside the symbolic order of the norm, being forced to face things we don't want to face.
Freud said that dity things we do are important.
In relation to fashion alot of topics that are covered in collections could be abject, alexander mcqueens highland rape for example.
Links in alot with taste and aesthetics.
good notes Alice. Thoughts on the lecture? Can this relate to fashion?
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