Contemporary Marxism is much broader in its focus and views art as simultaneously reflective and autonomous to the age in which it was produced. The Muse inspires the poet, who in turn passes on this inspiration to the rhapsode, who produces an inspired emotional effect on the spectators Ion, c—e. In the Middle Ages, great value had often been attached to the life of contemplation and religious devotion, away from the world. Symbolic - the stage marking a child's entrance into language the ability to understand and generate symbols ; in contrast to the imaginary stage, largely focused on the mother, the symbolic stage shifts attention to the father who, in Lacanian theory, represents cultural norms, laws, language, and power the symbol of power is the phallus--an arguably "gender-neutral" term. There are two key points to the idea of deconstruction.
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