On Repetition as an Invocation of the Subject. (The Stunt Man, Richard Rush, 1980)
On Repetition as an Invocation of the Subject. (The Stunt Man, Richard Rush, 1980)

Summary/Abstract: The article brings together a psychoanalytical approach to repetition and to Richard Rush’s movie The Stunt Man in order to show how a different understanding of Otherness, reality and desire can bring forth a subject much less exposed to a rigid, “paranoiac” view of the world. The director of a war movie continuously alters his script, in search for powerful means to convey his anti-war message, and manages to shake the menacing reality of the war veteran who acts in the movie’s stunt scenes. Similar to the Lacanian description for the direction of the treatment, the path to desire passes through anxiety, and – as the movie main theme goes – in “a world where nothing is what it seems”, the traumas of the past war can finally stop pervading the present.

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