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Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies

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One of the most instructive things to do [[about ]] [[Hitchcock]]'s masterpieces is to play the [[game ]] of [[mental ]] experiments. What if things were to take a different path (as they almost did)? Say, what if Bernard Hermann were to write for [[Psycho ]] the planned score in free jazz style with heavy saxophone sound? [[Vertigo ]] has [[three ]] such "what-if": what if Vera Miles hadn't gotten pregnant and had been able to play Madeleine-Judy — would it still be the same movie? What if — and this option cannot but strike us as ridiculous — Hitchcock had bowed to Paramount studio's pressure and accepted for the credit sequence the song Vertigo, already written by the standard couple Livingstone-Evans? And, what if the [[film ]] had been released with the extended ending, the additional short [[scene ]] in Midge's apartment, with Scottie and Midge [[listening ]] to the radio which announces that Elster was arrested abroad for the [[murder ]] of his wife?
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Ieva Mediodia painting
We all [[know ]] the [[uncanny ]] moments in our everyday lives when we catch [[sight ]] of our own [[image ]] and this image is not [[looking ]] back at us. I [[remember ]] once trying to inspect a strange growth on the side of my head using a [[double ]] [[mirror]], when, all of a sudden, I caught a glimpse of my face from the profile. The image replicated all my gestures, but in a weird uncoordinated way. In such a [[situation]], "our [[specular ]] image is torn away from us and, crucially, our look is no longer looking at ourselves."3 It is in such weird experiences that one catches what [[Lacan ]] called [[gaze ]] as [[objet ]] [[petit a]], the part of our image which eludes the mirror-like symmetrical [[relationship]]. When we see ourselves "from [[outside]]," from this [[impossible ]] point, the [[traumatic ]] feature is not that I am objectivized, reduced to an [[external ]] [[object ]] for the gaze, but, rather, that IT IS MY GAZE ITSELF WHICH IS OBJECTIVIZED, which observes me from the outside, which, precisely, means that my gaze is no longer mine, that it is stolen from me. [...]
==Source==
* [[Hitchcock's Organs Without Bodies]]. ‘’Lacanian ‘’[[Lacanian]] Ink’’. Volume 22. Fall 2004. pp 124-139. <http://www.lacan.com/frameXXII5.htm>
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