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Luna, Alina Marie A.

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Visual perversity: A rearticulation of maternal instinct (Euripides, Greece, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Marquis de Sade, France).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visual perversity: A rearticulation of maternal instinct (Euripides, Greece, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Marquis de Sade, France)./
Author:	Luna, Alina Marie A.
Description:	188 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-07, Section: A, page: 2534.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-07A.
Subject:	Literature, English. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3058963
ISBN:	0493744339

Visual perversity: A rearticulation of maternal instinct (Euripides, Greece, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Marquis de Sade, France).
Luna, Alina Marie A.

Visual perversity: A rearticulation of maternal instinct (Euripides, Greece, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Marquis de Sade, France). - 188 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-07, Section: A, page: 2534.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Albany, 2002.

The movie and three texts which I examine (Euripides' <italic>Bacchae </italic>, Coleridge's “Christabel,” Alfred Hitchcock's <italic> Psycho</italic> and de Sade's <italic>Philosophy in the Bedroom</italic>) pose problematic relationships between mother and child often characterized by struggles within the visual realm. The maternal gaze is characterized by a desire to re-possess a child whose existence is no longer physically bound to that of the mother. The trauma that attends the birthing of a child is indeed a rending or fragmentation of what can only be described as the maternal body at its most complete. To compensate for this loss of self, the mother privileges the visual register in that it becomes the means by which she remains “connected” to her child—space and distance are negotiated by the capacity to see the child. This visual connection becomes the surrogate for the desire to physically touch the child, thus, investing sight with palpability.

ISBN: 0493744339Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017709
Literature, English.

Visual perversity: A rearticulation of maternal instinct (Euripides, Greece, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sir Alfred Hitchcock, Marquis de Sade, France).
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520 $a It is this very physicality with which sight is often characterized that explodes once the child leaves a mother's scopic field by traveling a great distance. The idiomatic expressions that accompany vision and characterize it as informed by physical desires are acted out by the mother once her child “disappears” from her scopic field, thus, signifying an inability to exert control over the child. Maternal vision desires the re-possession of the child. It is that aspect of possession that is indeed problematic since having sprung from her body there remains an almost inalienable right to that child which motivates the mother's actions. In an effort to recuperate her own wholeness, she pursues her child to bring him/her back home despite the latter's wishes. Such an effort however yields disturbing consequences in the four works which I discuss. When a mother's vision fails, the physical desires with which it has been invested take over and the touch with which the child has been nurtured becomes the means by which the child will perish.
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