Luce Irigaray'...the metaphorical veil of the eternal female covers up the sex/organ seen as castrated. ... Why interpret the little girl's development and especially its relationship to the Oedipus complex, as the opposite [...] the other side, reverse, of the masculine oedipal situation? Or its negative? Especially in the photographic sense. Especially in the specular sense'.
'...one function of repetition, at least as understood by Freud is to repeat a traumatic event (in actions, in dreams, in images) in order to integrate it into a psychic economy, a symbolic order'.Hal Foster