Friday, 23 January 2015

Looking at gazes and psychoanalysis
-Lacan; mirror stage (all about fantasy)
-freud; oedipal complex, parental influences
-subconscious (forms desires, usually sexual and/or violence)
-identity
CONCEPT
-freud sees us as animalistic due to innate desires

-1930s was the great depression, wall street crash
-1900 film was born in France

Sex
-heterosexual
-the male gaze (mulvey) 1970s feminism. Dominant male perspective
-yonic and phallic are subconscious things

-female gaze
-black gaze
-oppositional gazes
-queen gaze (any day now)