Perturbance and Animation

IF 1.2 4区哲学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Foundations of Science Pub Date : 2025-12-23 DOI:10.1007/s10699-025-10011-6

Marcello Barison

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Abstract

This essay interrogates the Freudian conception of the Unheimliche by reinterpreting it through the dual categories of perturbance and animation. Taking Roger Corman’s X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes as a privileged site of analysis, it argues that the film not only stages but radically exposes the very dimension that Freud’s text systematically dissimulates: the nexus between ocularity, animation, and the death drive. Whereas Freud sublimates the perturbing into the castration complex, Corman dramatizes its irreducible link with blinding, thereby rendering visible the removed of psychoanalysis. The essay proposes “Perturbance” as the ontological oscillation immanent to beings, the universal radiation that makes them appear mysteriously alive. From this perspective, psychoanalysis is constituted precisely by its removal of perturbance, whereas cinema, by externalizing psychic nexuses in representation, fulfills the repressed possibility of psychoanalysis without removal. Through a dialogue between Freud, Hoffmann’s Sandman , the Oedipal paradigm, and Corman’s visionary film, the study delineates a psychophysical ontology in which animation is no longer confined to the living subject but revealed as the fundamental energetic quality of all that is.

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摄动与动画

本文通过对扰动和动画的双重范畴的重新诠释，对弗洛伊德的无意识概念进行了质疑。以罗杰·科曼的《X: X光眼睛的男人》为例，它认为这部电影不仅展示了，而且从根本上揭示了弗洛伊德的文本系统地掩盖的维度：视觉、动画和死亡驱动之间的联系。弗洛伊德将不安升华为阉割情结，而科曼将其与致盲的不可还原的联系戏剧化，从而使精神分析的移除变得可见。本文认为“扰动”是存在内在的本体论振荡，是使存在神秘地活着的普遍辐射。从这个角度来看，精神分析正是通过消除干扰而构成的，而电影通过在表现中外化精神联系，在没有移除的情况下实现了精神分析被压抑的可能性。通过弗洛伊德、霍夫曼的睡魔、俄狄浦斯范式和科曼的梦幻电影之间的对话，这项研究描绘了一种心理物理本体论，在这种本体论中，动画不再局限于活生生的主体，而是作为一切存在的基本能量品质被揭示出来。

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Foundations of Science HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-

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2.60

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11.10%

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