Trauma and the Repetition Compulsion

2013 ◽  
pp. 111-132
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Compulsion

Inherited Crypts of the Wife/Mother: Ang Lee's Hulk Meets Zechariah 5:5–11 in Contemporary Apocalyptic Discourse

2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Erin Runions
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Biblical Text ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Biblical Allusion ◽  
Letting Go ◽  
Conservative Christian ◽  
Conservative Christians ◽  
Christian Discourse ◽  
Lost Object

AbstractThis paper puts the political concerns expressed by secular apocalypse in Ang Lee's Hulk (2003) into conversation with the political concerns expressed by religious apocalypse in conservative Christian discourse. The film sets a revised version of the Akedah, in which the wife/mother is killed instead of the son, at the heart of its plot and of its critique of U.S. foreign policy. Set within Lee's apocalyptic analysis of repressed trauma, this quasi-biblical allusion points toward the repeating biblical tradition of the murdered wife/mother. One such repetition of this originary trauma can be found in what Diana Edelman has argued to be Yahweh's murder of his wife Asherah in Zechariah 5:5-11, a text which can be read in the same psychoanalytic terms that the film evokes. Both film and text represent the missed encounter of trauma and the entombment of the lost love object. In both film and text, the lost object, the mother, is entombed, encrypted and forgotten. But because this proto-apocalyptic text is one that conservative Christians take up in their defence of the war on Iraq as the precursor to the doomed Whore of Babylon, this text, uncannily, brings the film into contact with its religious apocalyptic roots. But where the biblical text is read in ways that only increase a violent repetition compulsion, the film models mourning and letting go as a way of working through the trauma. Thus, the film offers an alternate way of reading the biblical text in culture.

Il Falsario di Stefan Ruzowitzky - 2007. Considerazioni in tema di autenticitŕ

PSICOBIETTIVO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 137-143
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Riefolo
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Therapeutic Relationships ◽  
Repetition Compulsion

- The viewing of the film "The Counterfeiters" (2007), allows some considerations about the theme of authenticity in therapeutic relationships. This paper proposes differences between falseness and authenticity. Falseness should not necessarily be thought of as reciprocal of authenticity, because falseness can also have an authentic function. It's proposed, therefore, that authenticity should be considered as a process, while falseness as one of many factors of the process. The process of repetition compulsion (Freud, 1920) shall be considered the reciprocal of the process of authenticity. Key Words: Authenticity; Falseness; Process; Function; Factors.

Hegemony without Dominance

2020 ◽  
pp. 86-117
Author(s):  
Vishnupad
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Repetition Compulsion ◽  
Postcolonial State ◽  
Indian State

This essay in reversing historian Ranajit Guha’s classic colonialist formulation ‘Dominance without Hegemony’ contrarily suggests that the postcolonial state in India has hegemony without dominance. Over six decades of statist presence, it argues, the Indian social has acquired intimate literacy over the language and idioms of rule of law and statist practices. This pervasive circulation and currency—or hegemonic presence—of the statist idioms however has implied neither its uninhibited dominance, nor an unreserved compliance to it. Rather, the chapter argues, the engagement with rule of law is transactional or instrumental, and takes the form of routine circumvention and erosion, inventive negotiations, leading ultimately to recurrent resurrections and fetishization of law. This transactional and non-transcending articulation of law ultimately indexes a symptomatology of repetition compulsion that pointedly gestures towards irresolvable aporia of sovereignty of the modern Indian state; this paper strives to capture this predicament of the Indian polity through the lacanian category of ‘generalised perversion’

The Salvational Process in Relationships: A View from Projective–Introjective Identification and Repetition Compulsion

2008 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Gostecnik ◽  
Tanja Repic ◽  
Mateja Cvetek ◽  
Robert Cvetek
Keyword(s):  
Repetition Compulsion
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