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Index
Cover
Copyright
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
1 Figurations of the Real: locating the unconscious
1.1 Editing as Real, or death-drive in film theory
1.2 Pasolini as a reader of Hegel
1.3 The minimal gap between Othello’s two heads
1.4 Suturing void
1.5 Blow-up: about nothing, with precision
1.6 A theorem on the non-existence of Terence Stamp
1.7 The desert and the park
1.8 Infinite repetitions of the same thing
1.9 On neo-realism: excursus 1
2 Enjoying the Real: unconscious strategies of subversion
2.1 The vraie femme’s redemptive violence
2.2 From the virtual revolutionary to the revolutionary virtual
2.3 Masochism and the law
2.4 Drive unbound
2.4.1 Accattone: the excremental remainder
2.4.2 Salò: the executioner’s whip
2.5 Kafkaesque encounters in the law
2.6 Passionate attachments in the torture room
2.7 On neo-realism: excursus 2
3 Adventures in the Real of sexual difference
3.1 Negotiating the impossible
3.2 The Lady who wasn’t there
3.3 Of love letters and undelivered messages
3.4 La Femme n’existe pas!
3.5 Mimesis and sublimation
3.6 War of the sexes
3.7 The abyss of feminine sexuality: unconscious figurations unlimited
4 The postmodern Real: notes on the return of Oedipus
4.1 La stanza del figlio: radicalising neurosis with Nanni Moretti
4.1.1 The narcissism of the Beautiful Soul
4.1.2 Father, can’t you see I’m burning?
4.2 L’ora di religione: gazing backwards with Marco Bellocchio
4.2.1 The Oedipal legacy
4.2.2 Virtuality and the demise of the symbolic
4.2.3 Noir is noir
4.2.4 Smile as objet a
4.2.5 More paradoxes of feminine inconsistency
4.3 I cento passi: resuscitating Oedipus with Marco Tullio Giordana
Works Cited
Index of Names
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