furtive, autoeroticism, masturbation, self-loathing

National Gallery of Art

Examine this Venetian street scene by John Singer Sargent. Is it what you typically think of when you imagine Venice?

Sargent’s scene of Venice eliminates all of the traditional clichéd tourist symbols of Venice—gondoliers, canals, and the Rialto Bridge. Instead, he evokes the atmosphere of a Venice known to local inhabitants, a city of lonely figures and furtive conversation in deserted passageways.

What do you think the woman in the painting could be thinking? Where do yo⋯⋯

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One of those greater, later nightmares is “Last Look” (1985), another Taylor collaboration with Mr. Katz. What kind of hell is this? The dancers all start in — and return to — a single pile, but the women are wearing bright kimonos, and the men green jumpsuits that speak of glamour. Mirrors define the space, but on the few occasions that these characters look at their reflections, they’re likely to recoil or to peer in alarm. Donald York’s commissioned score quotes from Ravel’s “Valse” and other works.
A duet for Mr. Trusnovec and Amy Young suggests that each is furtively masturbating. Both look wracked by desire and shame. At one point she lies down and parts her legs invitingly; his immediate reaction is to stamp between her legs in a gesture of rejection. The whole work is steeped in the misery of self-loathing. There is not one movement that should be labeled a formal dance step; that’s true of “Esplanade” too, but there it’s part of the dancers’ naturalness, whereas here everyone seems stunted.

WordNet: autoeroticism

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The noun has one meaning:
Meaning #1: using you own body as a sexual object
Synonym: autoerotism

autoerotique

今天討論到autoerotique

也許梁兄知道翻譯

au·to·er·o·tism.

1. Self-satisfaction of sexual desire, as by masturbation.

2. The arousal of sexual feeling without an external stimulus.

這正是吳翻譯的 請參考p.158

我當時提出它與自戀之關係

博士們都說差多了 其實jk接下來講了兩次自戀

furtive

ˈfəːtɪv/

adjective

1. attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive.

   "they spent a furtive day together"

   synonyms:

   secretive, secret, surreptitious; More

   • suggestive of guilty nervousness.

     "the look in his eyes became furtive"