VOICEOVER Laurence Rickels

 In reading the seat of the father in Freud’s science as a construction of analysis, Rickels provides a summary of his theory of unmourning and the psychotic break. The lecture closes on the transportable therapy setting that stabilized the break for performance artist Yakoi Kusama and performer Brian Wilson.
2021
 
Author Laurence Rickels
 
Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek
 
In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture.
 
Don’t Look Now (1973) should be muted while viewing.
 


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Rickels returns to the Melanesian Cargo Cult, a mainstay of Aberrations of Mourning, to interpret the other term for what is at stake in Cargo: Savvy. While Cargo is carried by their ancestors, the Melanesians ascribe Savvy to the living. In the course of the Second World War, America replaces Europe and Australia on the Melanesian horizon. The Melanesians would have noted that Black Americans were in the US military. The Savvy ascribed to Americans (notably in the Johnson Movement) reflects the copresence of Blacks and amounts to a reading of American hipness as dependent on Black Savvy. The Trump Movement is the latest last hurrah of white Savvy, last seen in full array in Nazi Germany. That whiteness is by now a contact low is the estabishing shot of the denial that the Trump Movement symptomatizes.
2020
 
Author Laurence Rickels
 
Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek
 
In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture.
 
Blade (1998) should be muted while viewing.
 


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Heinz Kohut on narcissistic rage meets Erika Kohut in Elfried Jelinek’s Die Klavierspielerin and, in Michael Haneke’s La Pianiste, as interpreted by Isabelle Huppert. Jelinek’s inheritance of post-WWII Austrian language pessimism is examined as a narcissistic disorder symptomatized in the life and work of Walter Poppelreuter. Closer to home Ulrike Ottinger treated the symptom picture in her direction of Jelinek’s play Begierde und Fahrerlaubnis. Jelinek’s masterpiece Kinder der Toten was the reward of recovery from the narcissism of unmouring the mother tongue.
2021
 
Author Laurence Rickels
 
Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek
 
In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture.
 
La Pianiste (2001) should be muted while viewing
 


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Ian Fleming introduced the organization SPECTRE into the world of James Bond late in his game. He was preparing the crossover of his Cold War espionage fiction from literature into film, and the medium of projection became the author’s outside chance for a final reckoning with his opportunism. SPECTRE is a true underworld in which all the figures from the Cold War’s recent past – World War Two – are back, surprise attack, upsetting the deep freeze opposition that denied both the perpetrators and the victims the love that was once live. Fleming reverses the denial of the recent past and awards Bond in the course of the three SPECTRE novels the adult profile of the mourner.
2007
 
Author Laurence Rickels
 
Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek
 
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From Russia with Love (1963) should be muted while viewing.
 


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Rickels follows the Golem as legend to the mapping of cybernetics and science fiction between the Devil and the Death Drive. Can there be thought without a body? Yes, but without the unconscious fantasy we tend to dismiss as sexual difference we are a foregone conclusion – forgone! forgone!
2004
Author Laurence Rickels
 
Sound engineer Jochen Jezzusek
 
In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture.
 
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920) should be muted while viewing.
 


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Rickels tracks the career of Walter Benjamin's review-swap friend, psychoanalyst Alexander Mette, who remained in Berlin during the Third Reich. But when Mette tried continuing to pitch work on Dionysus and Apollo it was tossed in 1934. He reworked his language in the Romantic gobbledyspook mode of the Nazi talking heads, publishing studies of contemporary dream books and the Dionysian clown, which between the lines, however, give a record of decisive changes altering psychic reality in record time.
In VOICEOVER, film material is recommended for watching while listening to the lecture. ....
Beach Blanket Bingo, William Asher (1965) Trailer
A free version of the film is not yet available online. Watching the film beginning with the first visit to the spaceship is recommended.
The film should be muted while viewing.

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