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The Doctrine of the Salvation of hysteria in the Films of Ridley Scott - Focusing on Exodus: Gods and Kings, Alien: Covenant, and Kingdom of Heaven

  • Cross-Cultural Studies
  • 2022, 65(), pp.147-174
  • DOI : 10.21049/ccs.2022.65..147
  • Publisher : Center for Cross Culture Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Literature
  • Received : January 11, 2022
  • Accepted : February 3, 2022
  • Published : February 28, 2022

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ABSTRACT

The study aimed to analyze Ridley Scott's works, especially Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), Alien: Covenant (2017), and Kingdom of Heaven (2005) based on the hysteria and ethics referred to in psychoanalysis. The position occupied by the screen in the film is the position of the reference point that preserves both the director and the audience by mediating between the audience and the director while creating a distance or gap. This reservation of the screen can be linked to the concept of 'Salvation'. This is the basis for the concept of hysteria's desire and Traverse of Fantasy and is also the central reason for Slavoj Žižek, who expresses his theory based on Lacan. In this context, the end of the analysis does not mean the elimination of symptoms. Rather, the end of the analysis is paradoxically closer to the continuation of tension. Therefore, the purpose of Scott's constant provocation in his work can be interpreted as an accusation of hysteria that strategically provokes the Other. If so, criticism can be said to be a procedure to uncover the moment that occurs in a tense relationship between a film and an audience. In this respect, it can be said that Scott's film pursues hysterical ethics.

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