Panteridad: Vivir en un cuerpo dañado

Authors

  • Teresa de Lauretis University of California, Santa Cruz (USA)

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https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.0.19766

Keywords:

Trauma, death drive, psychoanalysis, horror movies, B-movies, Cat People, Val Lewton, asynchronicity, spectatorship, damaged body.

Abstract

Produced by horror pioneer Val Lewton and revived by feminist film theorists in the ‘80, Cat People (Tourneur, 1942) is read by the author as a text providing representation to Freud’s notion of death drive as crucial “Grenzbegriff” in psychic life. Attention to the very interesting and innovative use of asynchronous sound in the film, together with a discussion of diegetic and extra-diegetic material, allow for a reading that points to the complex connections between body and desire, otherness and human selfhood.

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Published

2012-12-27

How to Cite

Lauretis, T. de. (2012). Panteridad: Vivir en un cuerpo dañado. EU-topías. A Journal on Interculturality, Communication, and European Studies, 4, 9–18. https://doi.org/10.7203/eutopias.0.19766
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VOL. 4 (2012)

Section

WIDE ANGLE

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