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Gladys 2022-09-18 19:52:24
The language barrier has become a big problem,...
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Flavio 2022-09-18 19:21:56
To face what you are not ready to face in reality, to find something more real than reality - Freudian commentary throughout, telling the audience how to see it from an academic point of view in a terrible English accent...
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Van 2022-09-18 17:28:26
These movies are really my favorites, am I really pervert... What is real and what is fiction, Zizek didn't give me the...
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Burley 2022-09-18 15:24:53
Combining film and philosophy, like reading a book. Mirror, stare, big other, small opposite. (Ten film reviews plus short...
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema Comments
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Zella 2022-10-17 03:57:19
Notes: The pervert's guide to cinema
-Freudian understanding of fantasies in sex
Usually, people read the lesson of Freudian psychoanalysis as if the secret meaning of everything is sexuality. But this is not what Freud wants to say. I think Freud wants to say the exact opposite. It's not that everything is a metaphor for sexuality,...
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema quotes
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Slavoj Zizek: A normal, paternal authority is an ordinary man who, as it were, wears phallus as an insignia. He has something which provides his symbolic authority. This is, in psychoanalytic theory, phallus. You are not phallus. You possess phallus. Phallus is something attached to you, like the King's crown is his phallus. Something you put on and this gives you authority. So that when you talk it's not simply you as a common person who is talking, it's symbolic authority itself, the Law, the state, talking through you.
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Slavoj Zizek: This is the most terrorising experience you can imagine, to directly being the thing itself, to assume that I am a phallus. And the provocative greatness of these Lynchian, obscene, paternal figures, is that not only they don't have any anxiety, not only they are not afraid of it, they fully enjoy being it.
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Language: English Release date: January 16, 2009