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Wednesday
September 22, 2010
8:30 p.m.
Sustaining the Object Through the Erotic Imagination in Love by Karoly Makk
Lissa Weinstein, Ph.D.
City University of New York
Karoly Makk’s masterpiece, Love (“Szerelem”), set in totalitarian Hungary in 1953, tells the story of a young woman whose husband has been arrested by the secret police and who eases the last months of his ancient bedridden mother with fantastic tales of her son’s life as a filmmaker in America. The mechanism of the created fictions allows the two women to sustain their differing erotic attachments to the absent husband and to each other through the evocation of their erotic imaginations. Their continued tie to the absent, but still beloved object infuses their Spartan and bleak surroundings with a haunting and timeless beauty. The film is discussed as a depiction of the wider concept of Eros, always in relation to Thanatos and loss, always bittersweet in its beauty. Clips of the film will accompany the discussion.
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