Secrets and Keys: Psychoanalysis, Modernism, and Film in the Curious Cases of Musil'sTörlessand Pabst'sGeheimnisse Einer Seele

Autor:	Andrew Webber
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Linguistics and Language Psychoanalysis Literature and Literary Theory media_common.quotation_subject Philosophy Section (typography) Art history Modernism Consumption (sociology) Language and Linguistics Knowledge production Curiosity Psychoanalytic theory Soul media_common
Zdroj:	Oxford German Studies. 38:188-202
ISSN:	1745-9214 0078-7191
Popis:	This essay is concerned with the particular form of curiosity that emerges in the first decades of the twentieth century in the network of relations between psychoanalysis, film, and Modernist writing. In its opening, theoretical section, it considers how Freud constructs curiosity for his project, applying a Benjaminian focus to show how the allegorical forms that that project takes raise questions that go beyond psychoanalysis to more general regimes of knowledge production and consumption. This framework is applied first to a literary text with a cinematographic disposition, Robert Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torles (1906), and then to the programmatic psychoanalytic film, G. W. Pabst's Geheimnisse einer Seele (1926). In both cases, access to the secrets of the soul via an allegorical key is shown to be blocked, with curiosity left open at the end.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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