‘horrality’

the

monstrous

feminine

abjection

Vagina

dentata

L’Origine du Monde (Gustave Courbet, 1866)

(from Le blog de Marc Lefrancois)

Lesbian Vampire Killers (Claydon, 2009)

The

phallic

mother

Medusa (Caravaggio, 1597)

Head of Medusa (Peter Paul Rubens, 1617-18)

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What it is that marks the female patient as a ‘monstrous body’?

How does she relate to the image of the male doctor?

the

archaic

mother

Archaic Mother

Patriarchal Law

Freudian

death

wish

eroticism

#253 (Cindy Sherman, 1992)~ part of the Abject Art movement ~

Elle est retrouvee. [It is now re-found!]Quoi? L’eternite. [What? Eternity.]C’est la mer allee [It is the sea co-mingled]Avec le soleil. [With the sun.]

Bataille from A Season in Hell

Alien (Ridley Scott 1979)

the

primal

scene

Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Don Siegel, 1956)

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Who or what is representing the mother? The child? Is it clear?

How can we tie the notion of abjection as “blurring boundaries” to these representations?

abjection

The Evil Dead (Sam Raimi, 1981)

abject

vs

uncanny

rites of defilement

excremental

vs

menstrual

Carrie (Brian De Palma, 1976)

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‘voyeurism

Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960)

the suture effect

A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick

1971)

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Sisters

brian de Palma