Da Vinci Code / Da Vinci, sex displaced onto Jesus

As told 15

“poor jesus christ himself has to make love… to cover up the fact that there is no sex here between robert langdon and the grand-granddaughter of jesus christ.”
40:16 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

“Poor Jesus Christ has to make love to cover up the fact that here there is no love between Robert Langdon and the great-great-great-granddaughter of Jesus Christ.”
53:41 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

“Even Jesus Christ has to engage in love you know the thesis of the film the secret Jesus to cover up the fact that there is no sex here you know.”
31:49 Slavoj Žižek: It’s the End of the World as We Know It2014-02-10 · 1:03:39

What it carries

one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)

contents · one story, 3 jobsuses

love without the fall ×2 determinate negation ×2 masturbation with a real partner ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Dan Brown8 Anwar Congo4 Darian Leader6 Stanley Fish2 Terry Gilliam3 Hilary Neroni2 Samuel Maoz2 Ari Folman2

alongside works

The Da Vinci Code13 Angels and Demons10 Quantum of Solace10 The Lost Symbol6 The X-Files5 Silver Blaze3 The Act of Killing3 The Sound of Music4

Told together with

35% James Bond Quantum of Solace, no sex at the end 6 shared talks 23% Dating agencies: 'find love without the fall' 5 shared talks 18% Polish socialist store, no butter, no toilet paper 3 shared talks 17% Brazil restaurant scene 3 shared talks 14% Žižek escaping student Q&A via fake dean summons 2 shared talks 14% learning to enjoy alcohol and cigarettes 2 shared talks 14% Charity ad for the price of a cappuccino 2 shared talks 14% Golda Meir: I believe in Jewish people 2 shared talks 14% Rumsfeld / Iraq, no weapons of mass destruction 2 shared talks 14% Santa Claus Belief 4 shared talks 13% Fight Club: Ed Norton beats himself before his boss 2 shared talks 13% Sherlock Holmes and the dog 2 shared talks

Every retelling 15

40:16 Great Minds2011-07-01 · 1:30:44

In The Da Vinci Code there is no sex between the protagonists, but Jesus himself has to make love to cover for the absence of sex between Robert Langdon and the heroine. In Angels & Demons, sex present in the novel is removed from the film., illustrating self-commodification,ideology and the desexualization of culture

53:41 A New Kind of Communism2011-11-02 · 56:49

In The Da Vinci Code, the scandalous revelation that Jesus had sex with Mary Magdalene distracts from the fact that nothing happens between Langdon and Sophie, desire displaced onto a theological surrogate., illustrating love without the fall,thing without its substance

31:49 Slavoj Žižek: It’s the End of the World as We Know It2014-02-10 · 1:03:39

Žižek points out that in The Da Vinci Code, despite the romantic plot between Langdon and Sophie, there is no sex, and even Jesus is depicted as engaging in love to cover up the absence of sexual consummation., illustrating fall without falling,solipsistic sex

49:57 Freedom in the Clouds2011-10-21 · 1:35:48

In The Da Vinci Code Robert Langdon and the grand-daughter of Christ have no sex; so Christ himself must be shown to have had sex to compensate for its absence in the present plot, displacing rather than realising erotic desire., illustrating determinate absence,erotic desire in late capitalism

2:18 The Comedy of Life2016-11-02 · 1:11:35

Žižek reads Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code as symptomatic: the plot requires Jesus Christ to have had sex (to produce descendants), but the novel's protagonists never sleep together, the textual sex serves as cover for absent real sex., illustrating masturbatory sex,contemporary sexual ideology

1:43:59 Transcendental Subjectivity Part 12017-10-04 · 1:47:34

Žižek reads Sophie's inability to enter normal sexual relations in The Da Vinci Code as an authentic Lacanian position: Lacan says being a nun is no less authentic than heterosexual womanhood; transsexual identity similarly need not be condemned to endless suffering., illustrating castration,authentic identity,transgender subjectivity