Greeks and Bhuddism

The children have been reading, no, devouring, the Percy Jackson books.  The central theme of these is that there are in this world ‘real’ Greek Gods and more particularly their children, demi-Gods, who inhabit both the normal mundane world and the super-powered world of the Gods. Now being a lover of Greek myths I found …

skyfall and ideological form

Starting from the premise that the film makers are aware of what they are doing but that still they are tracing a shape whose contours are formed by the ideological sub-strata of our society.  This is the ‘big other’ of Zizek and via his work Lacan, something to which reference is made implicitly in all …

journey 2: the mysterious island

The idea is that film as a medium, as a form, emerged with women always already objectified ;by the format, the simple act of framing and representing any figure, of giving, however temporary, a fixed form ;by its practitioners, practically exclusively men, women further objectified in particular form. The latter held as achieving a patriarchal, …

a dangerous method

The film A Dangerous Method relates the story of Jung’s development of psychoanalytical theory and his meeting with Freud focusing on  Sabina Spielrein, a young woman who finds sexual pleasure in physical punishment.  Jung is drawn to her and they become lovers and at one point, finally acceding to the fulfillment of her desire, he …