...Jonathan Beller This fragment is drawn from The Message Is Murder , a work in progress that includes statistically discrepant readings of Jorge Luis Borges, Alan Turing, and Karl Marx, in addition to the engagements with Claude E. Shannon and Alfred Hitchcock present here. These readings...

..., castrating mother, and castrated father, with whom he cannot identify. (Freud postulated that such an imbalance in the family dynamic led to homosexuality in the male child.)32 Nowhere is mother trouble more evident than in Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological...

..., the murderous woman Bobbi; that Norman Bates's homicidal nature in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) manifests as cross-dressing; and that characters like TV series CSI 's Paul Millander, the franchise's first serial killer, is a transgender man seemingly set on becoming his own late father. (Why so many mad...