sexual imagery in lexx
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The Lexx as a phallic symbol!?! That requires some pretty serious loosening of associations.
Don’t you mean a hardening of associations Lee? Or is that a Freudian slip – into something comfortable? [img]images/smiles/icon_redface.gif[/img]
According to Charles Peirce – one of the two main founders of semiotics (the study of signs and symbols) – the fabric of the universe is made out of signs. The “entire universe is perfused with signs, if it is not composed exclusively of signs”. Indeed, sign as matter is why its matters (is entirely SIGNificant for those within it).
Within the context of the Lexx universe/s, it should not be thought insignificant that the Lexx’s appetites often coincide with Stan’s, and that the resulting frustrations exhibit themselves within Stan’s in/ability to let the Lexx compensate accordingly.
I am convinced that if Lexx were more widely known, literary and cultural theorists would think it so obvious as to want to associate themselves with Lexx – in order to signify their own place within the known universe.
[ 17-03-2002: Message edited by: bonnee ]