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Lisa Rubin

Lisa Rubin
Associate Professor of Psychology at the New School
Fashion

Fashion, Emotion and the Depths of the Self

February 11, 2020 • by Otto von Busch and Lisa Rubin
Tying fashion to sex is nothing new. Indeed, there is a whole tradition of psychoanalysts since Freud who has never shied away from seeing through clothes and reading sex through dress. Freud famously saw castration anxiety in high heels, and John Flugel recognized how dress is the meandering compromise between ...
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