Jim Carrey's The Mask, mask as true self

As told 4

“mask can be more you than your stupid face itself you know something that you repress have repressed can come out in a mask”
1:15:09 The Pervert’s Guide to Podcasting2020-11-25 · 1:38:44

“real you remember when he puts the mask on he gets caught into this absolute compulsion to act like a cartoon character this is the spectral undead real”
1:33:46 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

“the real is not the real behind the mask it's just his fucking stupid face... the real is that spectral excess of the mask itself”
1:32:45 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 3 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:42:02

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

death drive ×1 truth is in the mask ×1 spectral power of appearance ×1

Its cast and sources

populated by

Marlon Brando3 Jim Carrey3 Italo Calvino2 Julian Jaynes2 George Balanchine2 Bernard Williams2 Bernardo Bertolucci2 David Chalmers2

alongside works

The Mask4 Theme of the Traitor and Hero2 Spider's Stratagem2 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind2 General della Rovere2 Once Upon a Time in America2 Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone2 A King Listens1

Told together with

40% Avital Ronell / Badiou catches her on betraying the master 2 shared talks 33% General della Rovere (Rossellini) 2 shared talks 29% Don Giovanni and the Stone Guest 2 shared talks 25% Zeuxis and Parrhasius 2 shared talks 13% Antigone rewritten, three alternate scenarios 2 shared talks

Every retelling 4

1:15:09 The Pervert’s Guide to Podcasting2020-11-25 · 1:38:44

In The Mask, when Jim Carrey puts on the mask he becomes his 'shadow', his true self. The mask releases what the ordinary face represses, illustrating that masks can tell more truth than faces., illustrating face as ultimate mask,the unconscious and the mask

1:33:46 The Interaction with the Other in Hegel2009 · 2:07:30

When the protagonist puts on the mask he becomes a cartoon entity of pure drive, totally unable to stop. The Real is not his face beneath the mask but the mask's spectral excess, once you put it on, you become a compulsive undead entity., illustrating Lacanian Real,death drive,compulsion to repeat

1:32:45 Slavoj Žižek — On G.W.F. Hegel, Lecture 3 [Remaster]2009-08 · 2:42:02

In 'The Mask,' the real is not the face behind the mask, but the spectral, cartoonish compulsion of the mask itself, which becomes more real than the human face., illustrating mask as Real,spectral power of appearance

9:14 SSSSSSMmoking with Slavoj2019-10-17 · 1:17:54

In Jim Carrey's The Mask, the mild-mannered protagonist puts on a mask and becomes a larger-than-life cartoon figure; Žižek reads this as proof that the mask, not the face, is the site of authentic identity., illustrating the mask as truth,surplus enjoyment