INDG 401 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hypnosis
9 Jun 2018
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ENGL 409, Lecture February 1, 2018
“Disguises”
- Possible post-script to The Favourite Game
- Poem that challenges us ethically
- Maybe the speaker should be listened to cautiously
o Butchered mind
o Or maybe sees all the thing he says are in avoidance of the fact
- Poem of regret, love
- Autobiographical and geographical references to Montreal
o Reminder: deal with the obvious
- Landscape, cityscape, reminiscent of those same things in the favourite game
- Apology
- Underlying disgusting things underneath the beautiful parks
- Horrific potential in the Favourite Game landscape
- One of the way in which Flowers for Hitler scorn the earlier work
- Comedy same as monstrosity in the post-Holocaust world
The Favourite Game cont.
- What do we learn about a character who is so turned on by control of others?
o Hypnosis is just sexual assault
o Perverted
o Autoerotic narcissistic lust
o Might have felt powerless at some point or out of control\
o Think- his father’s death – one of his earliest lessons in his not having power in
what happens to him
o Very insecure
- Pg. 28-29
o With Lisa when she gets the curse
o They’re supposed to do it together but she has her period
o Language defeats him because he doesn’t know the word for it
o Moment that if he knows the same of things then he can have control
- P. 39
o Example of something he seemed to have experienced
o 4th last paragraph – “It wasn’t a hellish bunny hop if you knew the names of
things”
o Magical control because you know their names
o At least you will never not know the name of something
o So it cannot be used against you
- Issues with the hypnosis
o Language used in this passage
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