FEM 1100 Lecture 1: visual plearsue and narrative cinema summary

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 1100
• Professor: Corrie Scott

Document Summary

A political use of psychoanalysis the function of woman in forming the patriarchal unconscious is two-fold. Unchallenged, mainstream film coded the erotic into the language of the dominant patriarchal order. Pleasure in looking/fascination with the human form scopophilia: love of looking ; sexual pleasure derived from looking at sexually stimulating scenes or voyeurism. Developed through narcissism and the constitution of the ego, comes from identification with the image seen -> demands identification of the ego with the object on the screen through the spectator"s fascination with and recognition of his like. In themselves they have no signification, they have to be attached to an idealisation. Pursue aims in indifference to perceptual reality, creating the imagised, eroticised concept of the world that forms the perception of the subject and makes a mockery of empirical objectivity fetishistic scopophilia: Builds up the physical beauty of the object, transforming it into something satisfying in itself.