MDSA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Essentialism, Heterosexuality, Culture Jamming
Document Summary
Apparatus theory: an early psychoanalytic approach to film that claims the actual environment and machinery of the cinema activates a number of desires within spectators. Desire: the unquenchable yearning for love or recognition that no one else can perfectly or absolutely fill. Drive: motivating forces that arise when biological needs register within the mind and seek gratification through objects in external reality. Fantasy: a mental representation of conscious or unconscious wish fulfillment. Fetishism: the psychic structuring of an object or person as a source of sexual pleasure. Imaginary: a primary developmental space in which the child learns to make demands; it is the realm of chaotic images and sensory impressions into which the child is born. Lack: in psychoanalytic, the unquenchable quality of desire that references the difference between the imaginary and symbolic orders. Male gaze: the cinemas" frequent positioning of women as objects coded for strong visual and erotic impact.
