Madonna theory/ Representation of women in Humans

Sigmund Freud.

Virginity- Symbolic of purity.
Madonna- Jesus's mother.

• The Madonna in the bible is a women that has never had sex- pure women.
• Suggests sex is unclean and dirty.
• The madonna is the women men admire and respect.
• The Whore is what men are attracted to but disrespect.
• The madonna is nurturing, saintly and sexually repressed.
• The whore is sensual, sexualised and desired without purity.

Humans.

• Niska is a synthetic/synth.
• Cyborg- Cybernetic Organism.
• Anita=Cyborg.
• Human and machine is a binary opposition.
• "You're just a stupid machine aren't you?"
• Anita is called a washing machine.
• Commodity fetishism- intense desire of a product.
• Sexual fetishism- intense desire for a sexual aspect.

Sexy robot painting.

• Sexual fetishism- robot.
• Binary opposition of steel and sex.

Joe-"I'm not taking IT back"

Binary opposition/contrast.

Leo-"I love her and she loves me"

Donna Haraway- "We will all become cyborgs"- 1980s.

• Vehicles have shaped our society.
• We rely on technology such as pacemaker, phones, machines to make clothes etc.
• Are we human if we dont wear clothes? clothes cover sins.
• People use technology to define themselves- show off, be funny.