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"Eat Yourself Clarice!" The Banal Legacy of Hannibal Legacy, 2nd Edition: A Psychoanalytic Study of Cultural Freedoms in the West

"Eat Yourself Clarice!" The Banal Legacy of Hannibal Legacy, 2nd Edition: A Psychoanalytic Study of Cultural Freedoms in the West

Geiger, Jeff
Jones, Dan

Paperback

Philosophy

ISBN10: 1542660092
ISBN13: 9781542660099
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 4 2017
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.58
Height: 0.41 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Hannibal Lecter, the anti-heroic cannibal and sophisticated psychiatrist from Thomas Harris's novels and the corresponding Hollywood movies, has been a type of 'recurring reflector'. He has come and gone, tantalising subjects with the secrets of themselves. Again and again this has happened, until at last the subject cannot resist the urge to ejaculate his/her fantasies out into the external world. This study is intended for students and enthusiasts of film, literature and low culture who wish to gain a greater understanding of the relationship between the individual Subject and the Big Other state by using the figure of Lecter as a lens through which people view and externalise themselves. Considering everything from Wagner's Parsifal to the TV Show Big Brother via Columbo, this study will uncover the reasons why the western citizen has become disconcertingly blasé about privacy and basic freedoms. At its heart is the pervasive, haunting figure of Doctor Lecter. The study considers: - How subjects construct fantasies that are connected to their position within society - That Lecter the psychiatrist is a paradox; he is simultaneously less extreme and more extreme than the conventional psychoanalyst - Lecter's continuing influence upon popular culture - The ways in which this has resulted in a tragicomic inversion of the horrors of Nineteen-Eighty-Four. - A sense of a sense of enjoyment, and the enjoyment of that enjoyment - Further postulations upon the dangers of externalising our fantasies via two full appendices, considering Eraserhead, and classic film monsters. This second edition features an updated cover, updated Author's Foreword for 2017 and updated content within.

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