Entries from mistersquid: a digital fiction tagged with 'psychoanalysis'
Empirical Evidence
An astute observer of human motivation and desires, Sigmund Freud noted He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his...
End of an Error
For the present administration, such an error would in many ways be procedurally (and more importantly, psychoanalytically) consistent....
Embodied Threat
Analyzing Billy Idol’s “Cyberpunk” video, Thomas Foster notesAfter Idol’s character stands and begins to move, following [his] transformation [into a cyborg], the police open fire on him, apparently interpreting his merely standing in front of them in this newly embodied...
A Game of Love
I was reminded of Freud’s observations of a well-behaved eighteen-month-old child 1 whohad an occasional disturbing habit of taking any small objects he could get hold of and throwing them away from him into a corner, under the bed, and...
Double Stitch
For the past two weeks, I’ve wanted to follow up on my post regarding the ending of Spamland #1 (the only one I’ve as yet seen.) My argument was to have identified the retroactive constitution of subjectivity through the chain...
Now it Can Be Told
WARNING: FILM SPOILERS Tonight I finished Chan-wook Park's 2003 Oldboy, which I characterize as a Hankook traginoir with elements of surrealism (attributable to noir) and fantasy. The comments at imdb.com alternate between excoriating Park and the film's writers for...
Lookin' for organs in all the wrong places . . .
My organ-machine needs a new body . I think he wants yours . ...
rictus
Sometimes a cigar . . . Discredited with good reason during the rise of feminism, Freudian psychoanalytic theory and psychological models nonetheless do have their uses and insights, whatever apologies must be given and counterbalancing achieved before citing work...
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