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Vertigo, the fantasmatic shot of Madeleine

example · film: Vertigo (Hitchcock) · retold in 4 talks

In the restaurant scene, almost all critics describe Scottie's view of Madeleine as a subjective point-of-view shot; but it is too intense to be that, it is an 'objective subjective formation,' a fantasmatic image he cannot consciously assume or integrate.

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“It is a subjective shot. It's not she in reality, it's clearly a fantasmatic shot. But it's too intense, too strong. He cannot...”
“he in a way retroactively discovered that what he thought that he has lost never existed.”
1:04:05 A Defense of Universalism2014-12-12 · 1:24:09
“retroactively Madeleine never existed”

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In the restaurant scene, almost all critics describe Scottie's view of Madeleine as a subjective point-of-view shot; but it is too intense to be that, it is an 'objective subjective formation,' a fantasmatic image he cannot consciously assume or integrate., illustrating fantasy as objective-subjective formation,objective appearance,transcendental dimension
1:04:05 A Defense of Universalism2014-12-12 · 1:24:09
In Hitchcock's Vertigo, Scottie thinks he loses Madeleine; he discovers she never existed, so he didn't merely lose the object, he retroactively discovered what he thought he'd lost had never been there, enabling a counterfactual change of the past., illustrating counterfactual past,retroactive necessity,objet petit a
At the end of Vertigo Scottie discovers not only that he lost Madeleine but that Madeleine never existed, the vulgar Judy and Madeleine were the same person. This illustrates retroactive causality: the past itself changes when the truth is revealed., illustrating retroactive causality / retroactive necessity,freedom of choice vs. freedom to choose one's fate