L’étoffe cauchemardesque du cinéma japonais –
La mémoire de l’Autre
The Nightmarish Fabric of Japanese Cinema - The Memory of the Other
Author(s): Flaviu-Victor CâmpeanSubject(s): Philosophy, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Phenomenology
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: nightmare; Japanese cinema; memory; dream; uncanny; anxiety; the Other;
Summary/Abstract: The paper approaches the theme of nightmare in two classical short films by Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, by way of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Ianalyze Freud’s theory of dreams together with Lacan’s reinterpretation of it,considering an indescribable memory of the nightmare that belongs to the Other asa radical lack. Relating to the navel of the dream and to the mystery surrounding itand blurring the already thin borders between sleep and awakening, all these key dimensions of the nightmare stand for its impossibility to be defined, thus intertwining life and death by way of the rigorously portrayed uncanny from theJapanese cinema.
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
- Issue Year: XIII/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 67-82
- Page Count: 16
- Language: French