The Insatiable Trajectory of the (Lacanian) Real in McQueen’s “Shame” & von Trier’s “Melancholia”
“Both films reveal that the Real of desire hides behind the objective coordinates of our subjective freedoms.”
“Both films reveal that the Real of desire hides behind the objective coordinates of our subjective freedoms.”
“His introspection starts with identifying himself as an “idea” and as an “abstraction,” but concludes with his realization that he is, in himself, the absence or void: “I simply am not there”— Bateman’s conception of himself starts as a Signified and evaporates into a single, obfuscated Signifier.”
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