Lacan Thriller Final

What is the affect that doesn't deceive?

anxiety

What is anxiety's relation to the object, for Lacan?

it is not without an object

When do we experience anxiety?

in the nightmare

What does Lacan distinguish the drive from?

instinct

What are the limits of the mirror image, according to Lacan?

the edges of the mirror

What appears when anxiety occurs?

the uncanny

What does Lacan connect to the law?

desire

What type of object reveals the objet a?

the cross-cap

What causes desire?

objet a

What does the sadist strive for, according to Lacan?

the Other's anxiety

To what does Lacan oppose the passage a l'acte?

acting out

What object produces anxiety?

objet a

What does anxiety signal?

the real

With what does Lacan equate desire?

the law

What does the masochist seek?

the Other's anxiety

What type of animal does Lacan describe crawling on the psychic structure?

an insect

Where does Lacan locate anxiety?

in the gap between desire and jouissance (enjoyment)

What does the objet a give the subject access to?

the Other

How does Lacan define feminine masochism?

as a male fantasy

Who is a female fantasy object?

Don Juan

With what concept does Lacan link the objet a?

the cause

What is the objet a seperated from?

the child's organism

What point on the Buddha does Lacan identify as the point of fascination?

the eyelid

In what instrument of Jewish ritual does Lacan identify the objet a?

the shofar

What idol does Moses destroy?

the Golden Calf

What two new versions of the object does Lacan add to what Freud discovers?

gaze and voice

What do I miss when I see my own image in the mirror?

what is missing

To what does Lacan's compare the gaze?

the blind man's eye

What does the objet a block, according to Lacan?

desire's access to the Thing

What do non-human animals lack, according to Lacan?

a mirror stage

Whom does Lacan specify as a subject of the signifier?

Helen Keller

What does Lacan distinguish from the gaze?

eye

Through what process does the gaze become visible in a painting?

anamorphosis

In clarifying the gaze, what philosopher does Lacan distinguish himself from?

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

For Jean-Paul Sartre, what does the gaze do?

it surprises us

How does the gaze appear in the Ambassadors?

as a skull

What does Petit-Jean say doesn't see Lacan?

a sardine can

What is the objet a in the visual field?

the gaze

How does the painting deceive us?

through the creation of a screen or veil

Where is the gaze in relation to the picture?

behind

What effect does the encounter with the gaze have?

it brings the movement to a stop

Free Men

* the film distinguishes between transgression and radical action, two positions that often get confused with each other
* we think we see Ben Ghabrit as he is, but our view is obscured
* the Muslims save the Jews by making them part of their collective
* the film shows the act of not viewing oneself as an isolated individual

Read My Lips

\-because Carla is hearing impaired, she is more perceptive about people's desire

\-we SEE her inability to hear

\-For Carla, the voice is an absent object

\-she has a unique insight to the Other, but this cements her alienation from the Other

\-Paul & Carla's goal is surviving together, not the money so much

Revenge

* in the beginning, Jen is put on display- and puts herself on display- for the men
* Jen herself is in the position of the objet a that makes the spectator uncomfortable
* Even though Stan and Dmitri seem to pose the greatest threat, Richard proves to be even more malevolent than either of them
* the rape is not just performed by one individual but is collective: Fargeat shows the eating of Dmitri alongside Stan's rape, then juxtaposes the rape with Dmitri swimming
* After the rape, Jen is reduced to the status of a remainder to be gotten rid of because of her threat to Richard's comfortable existence
* Jen can only save herself through a series of acts of self-destruction
* the danger of the objet a becomes manifested in Jen after her self-surgery
* Jen is able to kill all of the man because the underestimate her abilities

Rabid Dogs

\-the robbers seem completely ruthless, but neither they nor we can see what doesn't fit with the image

\-there is a blindness to the most important part of the image

\-the ending of the film reveals that the father here does not have the phallus: he is just another desiring and lacking being

Ideal Man

\-Mathieu has no access to the desire of the Other

\-Plagiarism solves the problem of anxiety but ultimately creates more

\-the discovery of the journal is the discovery of the Other

\-the film contrasts Mathieu's success with his inability to write: he must confront what exceeds the mirror image

\-writers block is being confronted with objet a

\-Stan is an insider and enhances Mathieu's experience as the outsider

\-the great difficulty Mathieu has with Stan's body reveals its status as objet a (the remainder)

\-Mathieu's symbolic identity burns up in the car: he ends up with the actual status he coveted but he cannot enjoy of it