You had to bring Lacan into it...

I feel bad replicating this unusually jargonish sentence from Caroline Jones' otherwise lucid book in Greenberg, but... On Greenberg's drawing, she writes:

"We can interpret this fragmented male body, bristling with prosthetic supplements (yet still so lacking), in relation to Spengler's all-too-German narrative of deliquescent historical cycles and problematic Jews. The 'pseudomorphosis' of Greek Jewish texts recalls the problems of Greenberg's ventriloquized poetry; both connect productively to Lacanian theories of language as paternal law that forms (sometimes traumatically) the subject."

--Caroline A Jones, Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg's Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses. Chicago, 2005.