the monstrous body
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‘horrality’
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the
monstrous
feminine
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abjection
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Vagina
dentata
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L’Origine du Monde (Gustave Courbet, 1866)
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(from Le blog de Marc Lefrancois)
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Lesbian Vampire Killers (Claydon, 2009)
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The
phallic
mother
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Medusa (Caravaggio, 1597)
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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?
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the
archaic
mother
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Archaic Mother
Patriarchal Law
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Freudian
death
wish
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eroticism
#253 (Cindy Sherman, 1992)~ part of the Abject Art movement ~
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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
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Alien (Ridley Scott 1979)
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the
primal
scene
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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?
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abjection
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The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)
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abject
vs
uncanny
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rites of defilement
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excremental
vs
menstrual
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Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)
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‘voyeurism
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Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)
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the suture effect
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A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick
1971)
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Sisters
brian de Palma
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