Norman Bates / Psycho
example · film: Psycho ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek references Norman Bates' claim that he wouldn't hurt a fly to illustrate how 'good guys' (like Gandhi or Lenin) are framed as non-violent, despite being 'formal terrorists' who interrupt the system.
As told 2
“you wouldn't hurt even a fly, no, you know.”1:44 WikiLeaks' Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Zizek In Conversation With Amy Goodman 4 of 9pub. 2011-07-05 · 12:04
“What if we read this pathological figure of Norman Bates as a character split between two architectural house, the old Gothic mother's house on the hill and the flat motel beneath closer to the highway?”
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)
Its cast and sources
populated by
Bernard Tschumi1Paul Andreu1Ernest Hemingway1Norman Bates1Amy1Alejandro Zaera-Polo1Stalinism1Daniel Libeskind1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
1:44 WikiLeaks' Julian Assange & Philosopher Slavoj Zizek In Conversation With Amy Goodman 4 of 9pub. 2011-07-05 · 12:04
Žižek references Norman Bates' claim that he wouldn't hurt a fly to illustrate how 'good guys' (like Gandhi or Lenin) are framed as non-violent, despite being 'formal terrorists' who interrupt the system., illustrating formal terrorism
Hitchcock's Psycho can be read as a film about architecture: Norman Bates is split between the Gothic mother's house on the hill and the modern flat motel below. Žižek jokes that a Frank Gehry building incorporating both would have saved Norman., illustrating architectural split / Gothic vs. modern,political unconscious of buildings