The sexual energy is released, contorted in a sadomasochistic fashion that fed into the energy needed to run a military, run a war, or to conquer and administer an empire. The state has hijacked the sexual urge and put it into the service of the state. This was done in Japan as the government hijacked the bushido philosophical code. This was done wholesale with all of its elements, sexual included.
We must visit Freud again as we plumb the depths of the war and its connection with sexuality. After hopes for humanity's peaceful advancement died in the trenches of Europe, more examination was necessary as Freud reflected upon the statements of his friend, Albert Einstein. Freud posits a death instinct with humanity itself, thereby confirming the suspicion that violence had a biological basis. This might suffice as the explanation for regular, run of the mill violence. However, the wholesale slaughter of the First World War and the rise of figures such as Adolf Hitler in Germany (Freud corresponded with Einstein during the meteoric rise of Hitler in 1932) demanded a more systematic explanation. Freud finally concedes that there is a death instinct, one that is not fully satisfied even in the most affluent environments. Seemingly, human intelligence accentuated this (Freud 1959 283-287).
It would seem to this author that sex and violence have come together. War is the original womb of...
While Lawrence can indeed provide mediation between the cultures, he cannot substitute the release that women would have provided, had they been allowed to visit the camp. Thus, the violence is further exacerbated not only by the cultural divide, but also by the denial of sexual release either by means of hetero- or homosexual affection. Again, from the point-of-view of audiences, the film could provide a type of warning in
Witnesses reported the noticeable odor of decay was present and dried mucous on one of her nostrils. The child was dressed in a light colored long-sleeved turtleneck and light-colored pants (similar to pajama bottoms). Her distraught father placed her on the floor by the front door. A white cord was tightly embedded around her neck similar to the string around her wrist. On her neck at the base of
Suturing in Film Theory and Other Narrative Practices On a very literal level, to suture something is to sew something back together, usually imperfectly, usually with a substance that is alien to the body that is being altered -- such as the doctor's suturing thread that stitches together an open wound. On a semiotic level, according to Jacques-Alain Miller, Miller's definition of suture (in a nutshell) is that the suturing process
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