CIN301Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Transcendental Idealism, Death Drive, Mirror Stage
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Inadequate account of heterogeneity of spectator identity. Inadequate account of historical specificity of technology, texts, spectatorship practices, and human perceptual-cognitive functions. Primary processes : how the unconscious deals with the demands for the satisfaction of drives. Such as the pleasure principle and death drive. Secondary processes: manners of seeking objects outside of the subject (in the so-called real world) to satisfy needs initiated by primary processes. Secondary identification: spectator identifies with characters (or actors) Primary identification: spectator identifies with pure act of perception produced by the enfolding of spectator"s gaze with that of (absent) apparatus. Pleasurable experience of visual mastery based upon an all-seeing, unencumbered gaze produced by submitting to being mastered and led by gaze of apparatus. Subject effect: the production of coherent subject (ideologically docile) Evokes the relationship between the subject and his or her discourse. The illusory closing of the gap between imaginary (narcissistic) and symbolic (social) Suturing covers the fragmentation inherent in editing.
