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Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmBecoming Inorganic: Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, Virtuality and the Death Drive

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and Film: Becoming Inorganic: Cronenberg’s eXistenZ,... [Released in 1999, David Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ is a reflection on the new technologies of postmodernity — information, communication and biotechnologies, and new interactive media; a reflection in the twin senses of speculation on (theory) and specularization of (techné) the effects they produce in human reality, in the social imaginary as well as in subjective, psychic reality. Under the guise of science fiction — a mere pretext, as the futures of science fiction have become less and less distant from the present of writing — the film documents, both thematically and formally, the history of its (our) present. It shows us the cinema in its twofold aspect of virtual reality and biotechnology.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Freud’s Drive: Psychoanalysis, Literature and FilmBecoming Inorganic: Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, Virtuality and the Death Drive

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008
ISBN
978-1-349-35720-8
Pages
88 –113
DOI
10.1057/9780230583047_5
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[Released in 1999, David Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ is a reflection on the new technologies of postmodernity — information, communication and biotechnologies, and new interactive media; a reflection in the twin senses of speculation on (theory) and specularization of (techné) the effects they produce in human reality, in the social imaginary as well as in subjective, psychic reality. Under the guise of science fiction — a mere pretext, as the futures of science fiction have become less and less distant from the present of writing — the film documents, both thematically and formally, the history of its (our) present. It shows us the cinema in its twofold aspect of virtual reality and biotechnology.]

Published: Sep 14, 2015

Keywords: Virtual Reality; Science Fiction; Sexual Drive; Creative Destruction; Psychic Life

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