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..., to survive they embark on an Oedipal journey. This suggests that the film performs a “safety-valve” function for the contemporary viewing subject experiencing increased confusion as to his or her roles in society, for the subject increasingly confronted with a crisis in the Oedipal relation. However, it may...

...), and Invaders from Mars (dir. William Cameron Menzies, US) — with an eye toward the Oedipal issues that the shared structure helps to express. In conclusion, the use of psychoanalysis as a scholarly tool is debated. Chris Dumas is the author of Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political...

... as bearers of emotion, and on a crisis in intimate relations, the three films by Chantal Akerman, Claire Denis, and Ann Hui considered here reconsider melodrama’s possibilities. They all broach ways of rethinking Oedipal fantasy, moving beyond a story of the fraught emergence of the individual to one focused...

... is coerced through the Oedipal nar- rative into an unreciprocated alliance-an alliance sublating female movement into a type of non-movement, a relational position entirely dependent on the terms of the male Oedipal contract. “The end of the girl’s journey, if succesful,” de Lauretis concludes...

... of Coldness and Cruelty (1971). Deleuze challenges Freud’s notion of the sadomasochistic duality and foregrounds the masochistic subject’s ambivalent fascination with the powerful pre- Oedipal mother. In Deleuze’s model of masochism, fantasy, fetishism, suspense and disavowal are structurally...

... the two types of object bonds, identification and object love, paves the way for oedipalized social relations which privilege the decidability and individuation of the object pole over the insistent ambivalence, idealization and aggression, of the identificatory bond. I would...

... technology, is committed to the perpetuation of the theme of historical continuity in Oedipal terms, to the neutralization of sexual difference for the sake of national unity, to the naturalization of the historical process as a repetitive battle of the sexes. Instead of addressing difference...

... the numerous crisis points produced in women’s films of the 1940s in their attempt to address the female consumer, Modleski and others have located a specifically female Oedipal trajectory in films such as Rebecca, and tend to play down the difficulties female spec- tators might...

... of the feminine mass arts is caused by the devaluation of femininity in an Oedipal culture. While the study of mass culture for men has successfully authenticated its object of study 2 16 (i.e., the Oedipal text) women critics are continually on the defensive- ashamed of their own female fantasies...

... this obsessive return to oedipal narratives and images for processing a cultural history produces a powerful-even structuring- equation in Tarantino’s work between African-American masculinity 49 and popular culture. Butch circulates through episodic structures that are governed by another...

... this process in multiple and complex ways, four concepts seem to me to be central to her account of female spectatorship: pre-Oedipal fantasy, narcissism, the production of af• fect, and "over-identification" or excessive sympathy with characters. Becausemuch of the recent...

... of oscillation already referred to. Freud’s concept of hysterical identification rests on a triangular situation which bears the Oedipal marks of object choice of one sex 9 and rivalry and identification with the other sex. I will show that Freud’s logic of object choice and identification...

... on as follows. “It takes a psychoanalytic virgin like Lynch to place Oedipal desire and castration anxiety right up front . . . Wild At Heart joins the boy’s anxiety to a girl’s by tapping into both the Gifford novel and that classic American on-the-road text, The Wizard of OZWithout missing...

... the cinematic process reactivates or plays with; that the Oedipal scenario constructs both the spectator’s psyche and the text. 196 The contribution of this work is the focus on desire specifically in relation to a theorized female, instead of a male, spectator. But while gender...

...- man, showing how the representation of such a recurring dream can structure an adaptation of the Oedipal narrative and its reading. I also applied some of these ideas to music video in an essay called “Music Video and the Spectator: Television, Ideology and Dream’’ (1984...

.... The Kristevian rendition of the chora is often associ- ated with the realm of the pre-Oedipal, that is to say, with the pre- history of the subject, where the mother’s voice, gaze, and breast establish the psychical and libidinal contours of early infantile life (283 – 86). In this anaclitic collaboration...

... of the masculine look and position is not the effect of a punitive, masochistic attitude, nor only a result of the logic of nar- rativity. There is a desire, a desire for pleasure as well as for power. It is not an Oedipal logic which sustains Melchiori’s argument. Rather, she believes...

.... These filmmakers (Fassbinder, Herzog, Wenders, etc.) were acutely con- cerned with the legacy of fascism and the sins of their fathers. According to Elsaesser, “the royal road in the 1970s of West Ger- man cinema to German history was family history, and one can speak of a veritable oedipalization...

... the impasse of Rae’s divided desires, the film screens, in both senses, the normative pathology of the oedipal dynamic; the rep- resentation neither celebrates nor indicts the oedipal norm, but makes its insistence visible. But the film does not just portray a deadlock in Rae’s pro- found ambivalence...

... desire and patriarchy. Instead, she heeds Teresa de Lauretis’s call for a feminist cinema that explores the contradic- tions inherent in the Oedipal narrative trajectory: I am not advocating for the replacement or the appropriation or, even less, the emasculation of Oedipus. What I have been...