Incubus: The Nightmare Materialized. When Aggressiveness becomes Violence

The paper explores the tension between aggressiveness and violence regarding the intentional pressure (Lacan). It gives an account on thephenomenological take on intentionality in favor of the idea that the subject-objectrelation is indispensable for the conscious being. Psychoanalysis goes further...

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Published inInternational journal on humanistic ideology Vol. XIII; no. 2; pp. 83 - 98
Main Author Bodea, Cristian
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Presa Universitara Clujeana 2023
Cluj University Press
Subjects
Clinical psychology
Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Fine Arts / Performing Arts
Phenomenology
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Psychology
phenomenology
incest
aggressiveness
intentionality
nightmare
psychoanalysis
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Summary:The paper explores the tension between aggressiveness and violence regarding the intentional pressure (Lacan). It gives an account on thephenomenological take on intentionality in favor of the idea that the subject-objectrelation is indispensable for the conscious being. Psychoanalysis goes further andshows that such a relation has also an unconscious element which is essentiallyaggressive and structural. In order that the aggressiveness does not become violence,a process of sublimation is needed. This paper demonstrates that in nightmare sucha process is deficient, having to do with the forbidden object. Consequently, thequestion of incest arises. The movie The Incubus (1982) is a good example of what happens when the limit between subject and object is pushed, and it shows what would happen if that limit was removed.
ISSN:1844-458X
2285-4517