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Page 1: Lacan & Fellini

Lacan & Fellini

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Fellini on Fellini

“Everyone lives in his own fantasy world, but most people don’t understand that. No one perceives the real world. Each person simply calls his private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world. I prefer it that way and resent anything that disturbs my vision.”

-- I, Fellini Charlotte Chandler

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Fellini on Fellini

“Real life isn’t what interests me. I like to observe life, but to leave my imagination unfettered. Even as a child, I drew pictures not of a person, but of the picture in my mind of that person.”

-- I, Fellini Charlotte Chandler

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Fellini on Fellini “I believe that in the beginning we were neither

male nor female, but androgynous, like angels…Then came the division… Our problem is to unite the two… man is always looking for his other half… He can’t be complete or wholly free until he has found his woman…This is the great problem for the protagonists in La Dolce Vita and 8 ½. Both Marcello and Guido are surrounded by women, but neither can find his woman. On the other hand, each of the women believes he is her man.”

-- I, Fellini Charlotte Chandler

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Fellini on Fellini

“I was filled by school and church with an overwhelming sense of guilt before I had the faintest idea what I was guilty of.”

-- I, Fellini Charlotte Chandler

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Fellini on Fellini

“The discovery of Jung helped me be bolder in my trust of fantasy over realism… I thought of him as my big brother… He saw dreams as archetypal images which were the result of the common experiences of man.”

-- I, Fellini Charlotte Chandler

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Fellini on Fellini

“What I care about most is the freedom of man, the liberation of the individual from the network of moral and social conventions in which he believes, or rather in which he thinks he believes, and which encloses him and limits him and makes him narrower, smaller, sometimes worse than he really is.”

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KEY CONCEPTS:

Id, Superego, Ego

Resolution of Oedipus complex > the Self

Repression

Dreams: displacement and condensation(metaphor and metonymy)

Neurosis and psychosis

Transference

Repressed Truths

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

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Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

Language Is Us

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Self and identity are social constructions.

Our unconscious is just not inside us.

It is formed by language which is outside us and constructs our sense of self.

Language, our parents, the unconscious, the symbolic order represent the OTHER.

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Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

We Want Our Mothers

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

IMAGINARY PHASE: One with mother (Oedipal)

MIRROR STAGE: We recognize a separate being in mirror, feel “lack” for mother; recognition of OTHER but not SELF; birth of the never-fulfilled ego (ideal self-image)

SYMBOLIC (Oedipal crisis): World of language and authority; Father rules; reason and order; unconscious is formed; emergence of desire

REAL: Ultra-conscious experiences that lie beyond Language such as death, terror, ecstasy, love; inexpressible; Kant’s “thing in itself”; the complete unattainable world

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Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

God the Father is the Word

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Phallogocentric view of life

Male bias of authority

God the Father

We move from the “lost plenitude of the originary mother-infant symbiotic state” to a state dominated by Language and Logos (reason, knowledge, systems of order)

This provokes a sense of desire

Feminists based theories upon Lacan

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Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

Language Polices Our Instincts

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

IMAGINARY: Privileges fantasies and dreams

SYMBOLIC: Tries to make sense of the sensory through cultural authority policeable by the intellect

Freud tried to translate the Imaginary Order into the conceptual Symbolic Order

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Jacques Lacan (1901-81)

Internal Battle of the Sexes

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

IMAGINARY (feminine) Mother Plentitude Creative Dreams & fantasies Illogical Madness Holiness Freedom Rebellion Ideal

SYMBOLIC (masculine) Father Lack and desire Restrictive authority Ordered reality Logic Controlled sanity Ritual Repression Social conformity Accepted imperfection

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Fellini

Fantasy is Real

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Unsuppressed imagination

Dreams & fantasies source of creativity

Plots driven by psychological associations

Spontaneity vs. conventional linear narrative

The fantastic as real; reality as shallow

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Fellini

The Restriction of Reason

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Phallogocentric order repressive

Social order inhibits freedom and creativity

God the Father is the law

Guilt and shame as control mechanisms

Insists on cutting the umbilical cord and all ties to the “feminine order”

Must overcome the Oedipus complex

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Fellini

Free At Last

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Freedom from social conventions and outmoded mythologies (structuring codes of language)

Seeks “salvation” outside the conventional mythology of the Church

“Phallocratric hollowness of Catholicism” (Roma: clerical fashion show)

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Fellini

The Human Comedy

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Absent father (hollow phallus)

Mother dominant

Perennial lack (quest for the Ideal)

Assertion of imaginative order as path to individual freedom

Acceptance of ideal as beyond man’s grasp

Life is a festival

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Fellini

Comedy as Christian

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PSYCHOANALYTIC CRITICISM

Tragedy: The gnashing of teeth over man’s sins

OT Theology: man as evil

Comedy: We all have are flaws, but are still lovable

NT Theology: man as forgivable