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Psychoanalysis at the movies
Alfredo: “Living here day by day, you think it’s the centre of the world. You believe nothing will ever change. Then you leave, and when you come back, everything’s changed. The thread’s broken. What you came to find isn’t here.” ...
Salvatore: “Who said that? Gary Cooper? James Stewart? Henry Fonda? Who?”
Alfredo: “No, Toto. Nobody said it. This time it’s all me. Life isn’t like in the movies. Life is much harder.”
Philippe Noiret being Alfredo, the blind cinema projectionist, to his protege Salvatore
(who grows up to be famous movie director) in ‘New Cinema Paradiso’, written, directed (and loosely based on the life of) Giuseppe Tornatore, 1988
The trailer is here: Youtu.be/JMyVSD6OvO8
“The analyst has to pay something if he is to play his role.
This is the direction I have been taking you in this year, the point to which I have suggested you follow me, namely, there where the question of exploring the general ethical consequences involved in Freud’s ...
opening up of the relationship to the unconscious is raised.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis: Lacaninaustralia.com/reading…
“It is impossible not to point to a few of the lines spoken by Antigone.
Lines 48, 70, and 73, where Antigone expresses a kind of idiocy that is apparent at the end of a sentence in the word μετά
Μετά means ‘with’ or ‘after’.
Prepositions don’t have the same function in ...
Greek as they do in French, in the same way that particles play a different role in English from what we know in French.
Μετά is, properly speaking, that which implies a break.”
Jacques Lacan, ‘The Articulations of the Play (Antigone)’, Seminar VII, The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, page 265, this eve: Lacaninaustralia.com/reading…
All welcome
“It is obvious that in real life, love and desire are two different things.
We should speak clearly and say that we can love someone a great deal and desire someone else.
To the degree to which women occupy the specific position that I mentioned, they know the value of ...
all the affection and devotion we can imagine, but the fact remains that if he desires another woman – even if the first woman knows that what he desires in this other woman is her shoe, the hem of her dress, or the makeup she wears on her face – his homage to being thus goes to
the other woman.
It is necessary to remind people of first truths from time to time, which is why I think you will excuse this digression.”
Jacques Lacan, Seminar VI, Desire and Its Interpretation, page 450 @joce_cova
“The mirror stage is a phenomenon to which I assign a twofold value.
In the first place, it has historical value as it marks a decisive turning-point in the mental development of the child.
In the second place, it typifies an essential libidinal relationship ...
Fine writers on life
“Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.”
Anton Chekhov (who was a physician prior to becoming a writer), Ward No. 6, 1892.
ALT Portrait by Osip Braz, 1898, now held by the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
Psychoanalysis at the movies
“The memories, no, they never really go away. Nothing really goes away, it’s always here. Sometimes it takes you over, and is stronger than any reality around you.”
Jonas Mekas in voice-over in ...
‘As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty’, 2000
His work is a 5-hour experimental documentary and autobiographical narrative derived from over 30 years of his own home-movie footage.
The @britishfilminstitute named it one of the greatest movies ever made.
The trailer is here: Youtu.be/qk9nuU8vEoY
