Betekenis van:
impotence

impotence
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • het geen actie kunnen ondernemen
  • the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble

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impotence
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • geslachtelijke onmacht
  • an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate

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  1. The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.