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