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‘horrality’
the
monstrous
feminine
abjection
Vagina
dentata
L’Origine du Monde (Gustave Courbet, 1866)
(from Le blog de Marc Lefrancois)
Lesbian Vampire Killers (Claydon, 2009)
The
phallic
mother
Medusa (Caravaggio, 1597)
Head of Medusa (Peter Paul Rubens, 1617-18)
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What it is that marks the female patient as a ‘monstrous body’?
How does she relate to the image of the male doctor?
the
archaic
mother
Archaic Mother
Patriarchal Law
Freudian
death
wish
eroticism
#253 (Cindy Sherman, 1992)~ part of the Abject Art movement ~
Elle est retrouvee. [It is now re-found!]Quoi? L’eternite. [What? Eternity.]C’est la mer allee [It is the sea co-mingled]Avec le soleil. [With the sun.]
Bataille from A Season in Hell
Alien (Ridley Scott 1979)
the
primal
scene
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)
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Who or what is representing the mother? The child? Is it clear?
How can we tie the notion of abjection as “blurring boundaries” to these representations?
abjection
The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
abject
vs
uncanny
rites of defilement
excremental
vs
menstrual
Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
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‘voyeurism
Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
the suture effect
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick
1971)
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Sisters
brian de Palma
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