ENG 2133 Lecture 8: lecture 8_Suddenly Last Summer_Movie_Short Discussion
12 Jun 2018
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ENG2133- Lecture 8 – May 28, 2018
Suddenly last Summer – watched in class followed with shorter lecture
• Repeated verbal (and visual) pattern – symbols/metaphors
• Repression- conversion- symptom- analysis
• Psychoanalytic plot/ talking cure- as soon as Katherine speaks she is magically cured
• Mystery/detection
• Trial/ courtroom/ testimony
• Q? white/ transparent clothing, devouring birds
• How is this so popular with homosexuals? Satisfying
• Blazing white day – he wore all white, white pills, white handkerchief etc.
• Those dressed in white (pure) tend to be the most corrupt
• When Catherine gets to wear her own clothes- dark clothing
• Movie obsessed with haraters’ appearance
• How will others see them?
• How can she dress is control over herself
• Exposure and concealment (white-blinding- all seeing God)
• Blackness- of the devouring birds
• “uddely last suer…she eoutered eil
• Seb is evil- he takes advantage of boys- they deour reatio like the irds ad turtles
• Mainstreaming psychoanalysis treatment – do’t eed to e a dotor to ko
• she a’t reeer, that’s her illess
• She will be made to remember
• Freud’s psyhoaalysis – repression is the 1st step to conversion –translated to something the
ego can tolerate- hides the truth in plain site
• Symptom- a coded message- un-coded by professional
• Smoking- hot ravinish mouth (he smoked before her) – rape, his pedophilic (boys on a menu)
• Cannibalism
• Smoking- tells the story she ould’t fully say
• To tell a coherent story is to be cured- every part of the brain connected etc.
• The smoking mouth cannot speak (plug)
• Yet cannot speak about ho’s really smoking
• Freud- hysterical symptoms- linked to sexual trauma- often in childhood
• Thing that sets you off is not the cause (real cause is rape @oaks)
• Not the cause but the trigger (Sebs death)
• i.e. wife remembers childhood molestation with husband in new marriage
• people become sick because it is not expressed directly (twisted)
• unclear as to whether he was actually eaten by the boys or not- however movie depicts it as a
literal fact
• Violet is narcissistic - a’t omit age
• To omit one is to admit so’s truth
• Film makes it seem that Sebs death is the cause- wrong it is the trigger
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