LACAN’S CONCEPT OF DESIRE AND ITS ARTICULATION IN ROMAN POLANSKI’S FILM REPULSION (1965)
LACAN’S CONCEPT OF DESIRE AND ITS ARTICULATION IN ROMAN POLANSKI’S FILM REPULSION (1965)

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, the author undertakes an analysis of the concept of desire (désir) within the theoretical framework set by the French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. The concept of desire is central to his theoretical thought. For Lacan desire is unconscious, not because there are no conscious desires, but because the unconscious is central to the psychoanalytical field. The author will also present the relation between demand and desire, as well as the concept of enjoyment (jouissance) related to both. Lacan defines man’s desire as the desire of Other. The paper aims at an explication of the articulation of desire through a case study of the character of Carol Ledoux in the film Repulsion (1965) directed by Roman Polanski, and the concept of female desire and its articulation by the notion of the Other.

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