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- Title
The Scream Itself: Masochistic Jouissance and a Cinema of Speechlessness in La Grande Bouffe.
- Authors
Mee, Sharon Jane
- Abstract
This article argues for an understanding of the scream at the nexus of a pre-verbal, imperceptible and inaudible operation. The work of Jean-François Lyotard describes a figure that breaks with figurative, illustrative and narrative forms, and takes up an operative function. In aesthetic terms, this operative figure - the figure of the matrix of desire - is what Lyotard describes as "seeing" rather than "vision". That is, a child-like look that does not recognise the world by which it might master it, but which desires to surpass limited existence, to lose oneself and to desire everything incompossibly. "Seeing", in other words, is an opening of the self to the world in the original sense of aisthesis. Such an opening describes a masochistic jouissance inasmuch as this is an eroticism that has no mastery in dialectical terms or in verbal expression. This article will examine the screaming, howling, whooping and wailing of characters in Marco Ferreri's La Grande Bouffe (1973) to understand the appearance of masochistic jouissance in cinema.
- Subjects
LYOTARD, Jean-Francois, 1924-1998; SEXUAL excitement; BATAILLE, Georges, 1897-1962; DIALECTICAL behavior therapy; DESIRE; VISION; AESTHETICS; SELF
- Publication
Film-Philosophy, 2020, Issue 3, p321
- ISSN
1466-4615
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3366/film.2020.0148