Changes

In ''City Lights'', one of [[Charlie Chaplin]]'s absolute masterpieces, there is a memorable [[scene ]] (commented on by [[Levinas]], among [[others]]) which establishes the link between this object and [[shame]]. After he swallows a whistle by mitake, the Tramp gets an attakc of hiccups, which leads to a comical effect - because of the movement of air in his stomach, each hiccup makes the whistle blow and thus generates a weird sound of whistles comign from [[inside ]] the [[body]]; the embarrassed Tramp desperately tries to cover up these sounds, not [[knowing ]] what exactly to do. Does this scene not [[stage ]] shame at its purest? I am ashamed when I am confronted with the [[excess ]] in my body. It is significant that the source of shame in this scene is sound: a [[spectral ]] sound emanating from within the Tramps' body, sound as an [[autonomous ]] "[[organ without body]]," located in the veyr heart of his body and at the same [[time ]] uncontrollable, like a kind of parasite, a foreign intruder - in short, what [[Lacan ]] called the [[voice]]-[[object]], one of the incarnations of ''[[objet petit a]]'', of the ''[[agalma]]'', that which is "[[in me more than myself]]."