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  • 标题:M. Hommelette’s Wild Ride: Lamella as a Category of Shame
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  • 作者:Christine Evans
  • 期刊名称:International Journal of Žižek Studies
  • 印刷版ISSN:1751-8229
  • 出版年度:2008
  • 卷号:2
  • 期号:2
  • 出版社:Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
  • 摘要:Although the lamella in its original Lacanian context is generally conceived as a metaphor for the libido, this paper primarily functions as a response to Zizek’s reimagination of Lacan’s myth of the lamella, and addresses the often capricious repercussions of this transmutation on contemporary cultural accounts of the lamella. While extensive analyses of this peculiar ‘false organ’ are all but absent from Lacanian scholarship, the lamella has nonetheless undergone a variety of methodological permutations as a newly-imagined construct of cultural studies. For cinema studies in particular, the implications of such cultural hypervisibility have elevated the lamella to a contentiously centralized place, such that its relationship to drive and flesh is overvalued. As such, this paper aims to interrogate the specifically visual appearances of the lamella across three intersecting critical dimensions: firstly, I address the ‘cultural studies lamella’, which selectively (and problematically) reinterprets Zizek’s reading of this particular false organ as biological and fleshy. The cultural echoes of this Zizekian analysis are then positioned against the original Lacanian discussion of lamella, which includes the seemingly impossible collusion of symbolic/phallic and primordial/prephallic characteristics in the neologism of ‘hommelette.’ Positing that this neologism introduces a temporal dimension to our understanding of (biological) privation and (symbolic) castration, I take up this distinctly Lacanian return as the ‘missing’ interstice between cultural studies and Zizekian readings of the lamella, and address its appearances in the films of Canadian auteur David Cronenberg. I take as the focus of my argument a recent esasy by Slavoj Zizek, “Odradek as a Political Category.”i While not a particularly extensive analysis of the lamella itself, Zizek’s essay does radicalize our comprehension of Lacan’s ‘false organ’ by essentially positing it as a category of shame (of castration). As such, my analysis mostly concerns an investigation of the matrix of possibilities (contingent on the lamella) that are inferred by Zizek’s call at the conclusion of “Odradek as a Political Category” to ‘not lose our sinthome (shame)’; I apply this lamella/shame framework to Cronenberg’s male melodramas, particularly Dead Ringers (1988) and M. Butterfly (1991).
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