The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Lucas Ferraço Nassif who will talk about “Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt”.
ABSTRACT Assembled by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok in the book “Le Verbier de L’Homme aux Loups” (1976), cryptonymy — here in this presentation twisted to cryptonomy: a tool of both research and production of more philosophical concepts, an operator of libidinal economy and its intensities that is thinking the laws which are organizing the transits between the I and the Other — is a way of reading and writing with an undecipherable crypt that guarantees the impenetrability of the intra-symbolic inner worlds of the image. Yet, what are the contributions of cryptonomy, a concept from psychoanalysis, to philosophy, more specifically to philosophy or art and film, and for those who work with images? What philosophy can learn as a method with concepts that come from psychoanalytic clinics? What are the philosophical effects of operating with cryptonomy and “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017)? As a tool of both research and production of concepts, what happens when cryptonomy is used to think and to feel with the TV show created by Mark Frost and David Lynch? To formulate a hypothesis, we debate Part 8 and the impact of the Trinity Test on the image of the desertshore — which will incorporate the explosion and its radiation, mutating its semiotic diagram of forces and building the crypt. “Twin Peaks: The Return” activates cryptonomy on the strength of its mysteries that will not be solved or have secured interpretations, confronting phallic comprehension. Thus, with cryptonomy, we may learn how to see and to listen to images on both the limit of meaning and the threshold of chaos. This presentation is part of my new book “Unconscious/Television”, soon to be published by Becoming Press.
The session is hybrid and will be held on November 20, 2024, at 15:00 PM (Lisbon time), at Colégio Almada Negreiros (room SA) and online, via Zoom. To receive information about joining the meeting online, it’s mandatory to register in advance here.
