Stephen King's The Shining as neighbor

As told 3

“The neighbor is the evil thing which potentially lurks beneath every homely human face.”
37:36 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

“the father, a modest failed writer, gradually turns into a killer beast”
9:11 Slavoj Žižek – From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut2006 · 43:49

“The neighbor is the evil thing which potentially lurks beneath every homely human face.”
31:26 Year of Distraction1:16:41

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, 2 jobsuses

das Ding ×2 the neighbor ×2

Its cast and sources

populated by

Julius Rosenberg2 Paul Robeson2 Ágota Kristóf2 John Ruskin1 Guillermo Arriaga1 Jeffrey Mehlman1 Irena Grudzińska-Gross1 Ralf Dahrendorf1

alongside works

The Shining (novel)3 The Conflict of Faculties2 The Notebook / The Proof / The Third Lie1 The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious1 Seminar 3: The Psychoses1 Ryan's Daughter1 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge1 Epistle to the Romans1

Told together with

50% Japanese workers and unused holiday rights 2 shared talks 50% South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee vs. Nazi Germany 2 shared talks 50% Tito dies happy / Yugoslav debt accumulation 2 shared talks 33% Proust's grandmother on the telephone 2 shared talks 29% Judith Butler: 'be one species among many', Žižek's respectful refusal 2 shared talks 22% Hitchcock's Vertigo, the missing underwear 2 shared talks 21% Rumsfeld's known/unknown matrix and the fourth term 3 shared talks 20% Yugoslav army and homosexual innuendo 2 shared talks 18% Father Joseph / Père Joseph, Gray Eminence 2 shared talks 14% Martin Luther King and Tolerance 2 shared talks 13% Stalinist prohibition of the prohibition 2 shared talks 11% Daisetz Suzuki's Knife 2 shared talks

Every retelling 3

37:36 Fear Thy Neighbor as Thyself2007-11-26 · 1:55:58

The father in The Shining, a modest failed writer who gradually becomes a murderous beast, exemplifies the neighbor: the familiar face that conceals an evil Thing underneath., illustrating the neighbor as Thing,das Ding

9:11 Slavoj Žižek – From Che vuoi? to Fantasy: Lacan with Eyes Wide Shut2006 · 43:49

In The Shining a modest failed-writer father gradually turns into a killer beast who slaughters his family, the evil Thing lurking beneath the homely human face., illustrating the inhuman neighbor,das Ding / the Thing

31:26 Year of Distraction1:16:41

The father who gradually becomes a murderous beast illustrates Žižek's Lacanian point that beneath every familiar human face lurks the Thing, the neighbor is always potentially a monster., illustrating the neighbor as das Ding,uncanny otherness