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Film as an Art Is Invoking the Unconscious

i don't know if there's a any understanding of unconscious proper right like there's no. none of those theorists from baudry to meds to maulveyNone of them to think about the way in which the unconscious is trying to undermine subjectivity, he says. i wonder even about fear of castration for the cinema spectator  there's a kind of desire to sustain castration not an attempt to get over it or to create this imaginary mastery of it and i think maybe that's what we're getting at is that the fundamental impulse of the subject is not an imaginary one that it's not. I mean i don't want to do a depth model but that's not

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