ENG 3106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Antihero, Narcissism, Bisexuality
22 Sep 2016
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Review: three variable terms for human identity : masculine/active/subjective (if you"re doing the looking, feminine/ passive / objectified (being victimized, noir: multiple, hybrid, oscillating. When cora meets frank she is the victim, and he is watching her in the frame of the door. The gaze then turns to her watching him. She then denies the gaze and bares the power by shutting the door. Don"t look at it as the dictionary definition, gives you a negative view, where as he wants us to view it as positive. Guy staring at himself in the water, he fell in love with himself, he tries to grab himself and drowned. The subject is gazing, the object is he in the reflection, which is an argument for bisexuality active subject and passive object. Narcissism has a significance of perversion (73) we can"t think of perversion of negative we have to think about it being one version of identity.
