This tongue is not my own: Dogtooth, phobia and the paternal metaphor
Book chapter
Tyrer, B. 2017. This tongue is not my own: Dogtooth, phobia and the paternal metaphor. in: Kazakopoulou, T. and Fotiou, M. (ed.) Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present Peter Lang. pp. 101-129
Chapter title | This tongue is not my own: Dogtooth, phobia and the paternal metaphor |
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Authors | Tyrer, B. |
Abstract | Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth (2009) exists in the shadow of certain real life cases and, as a film about a dictatorial Greek patriarch, is open to readings of political allegory; aesthetically, it is a post-Haneke minimal-realist piece, of fixed shots and cramped framing, and it employs an amalgam of professional and non-professional actors; it is also a reflection on the transgressive and liberating possibilities of the cinema itself; but what is most interesting about the film, from a Lacanian perspective, is what it suggests about language and family structure. And so, through concepts such as phobia and the paternal metaphor, as well as alienation and the uncanny – as they are theorized by Lacanian psychoanalysis – this chapter will explore the constitution of the Subject, in and through language, in Dogtooth to reveal – in a properly psychoanalytic manner – what the “pathological” instance here can tell us about the general condition. |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Page range | 101-129 |
Book title | Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present |
Editors | Kazakopoulou, T. and Fotiou, M. |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
ISBN | |
Electronic | 9781787075115 |
Paperback | 9783034319041 |
Publication dates | |
2017 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 12 Jun 2023 |
Output status | Published |
Web address (URL) | https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109853 |
Language | English |
Journal | Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present |
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