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In film beyond film

the ontological primacy of woman

Fabio Vighi

pp. 203-236

Abstrakt

In this final section we enter a microcosm that is thoroughly delivered from the masculine logic of "knowledge through exclusion". Woman here has no secret anchoring in enjoyment. For her, enjoyment is a ciel ouvert, it overlaps with the enjoyment of the big Other. What elevates woman beyond man is the paradox of a perforated whole, a whole that is not ashamed of revealing its holes, through which she verifies the non-existence of the big Other. For this reason, woman is in film beyond film, both fully included in its symbolic domain and in excess of it, belying the emptiness of its foundations.

Publication details

Published in:

Vighi Fabio (2009) Sexual difference in European cinema: the curse of enjoyment. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Seiten: 203-236

DOI: 10.1057/9780230594357_7

Referenz:

Vighi Fabio (2009) In film beyond film: the ontological primacy of woman, In: Sexual difference in European cinema, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 203–236.