The Uncannily Intimate in Guy Maddin’s Cowards Bend the Knee: An Aesthetics of the Suddenly Obscene

Taking as a point of departure the Freudian notion of the “Unheimlich” and Jacques Lacan’s theory on the “ex-timate,” this paper will focus on the symbolic materialisation of the intimate, as a reflection of the split identity of the subject, and of the subject’s negotiation of the castration comple...

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Main Author: Anne COMBARNOUS
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Laboratoire d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Monde Anglophone (LERMA) 2014-12-01
Series:E-REA
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/erea/4001
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