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THE PIANO TEACHER
“Pain itself is merely a consequence of the
desire for pleasure, the desire to destroy, to
annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a
variety of pleasure.” (107)
“The opposite sex always wants the exact opposite.” (143)
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PEEP SHOWS
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PEEP SHOWS
shame, voyeurism, anonymity
simultaneously public and private, nameless, reductive
power, control, domination
shame, disgust, pleasure, mediation of desire through
other
auto-/allo-eroticism | objectification | subjectivity
the Gaze – Laura Mulvey (Sartre, Lacan, Zizek)
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PEEP SHOWS
immigration, race, ethnicity
class, economics, urban life
gender and sexual politics
shame, secrecy, anonymity,
privilege, power
the GAZE | Objectification
(subjectivity)
Precedents and Consequences
for Erika
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PEEP SHOWS
I – 44-45 and 47-49 and 52-56• antecedent – the country cousin and first reported cutting • subsequent – sees other young people in groups, flirting,
dating, etc.
Erika goes to porn theatre 105-108• greater violence, sadism, blurred interior/exterior – where
is the mystery of women’s desire (and male desire for it)?
then to the park for some live-action voyeurism 140-141
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PEEP SHOWS
I – 44-45 and 47-49 and 52-56• antecedent – the country cousin and first reported cutting • subsequent – sees other young people in groups, flirting,
dating, etc.
Erika goes to porn theatre 105-108• greater violence, sadism, blurred interior/exterior – where
is the mystery of women’s desire (and male desire for it)?
then to the park for some live-action voyeurism 140-141
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A LETTER ALWAYS ARRIVES
typically letters are love letters
romance, epistolary novels – seduction by words,
images
long-distance seduction – even in Les Liaisons
Dangereuses
commitment, affirmation, oath
the epistolary tradition in novels – record of truth,
interiority, privacy, tenderness, detail, subjectivity, desire
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A LETTER ALWAYS ARRIVES
In The Piano Teacher this all gets overturned
antecedent to the letter – the bathroom
“seduction” 175ff.
then the letter – 214 ff.
and its consequences – c. 272ff.