become louis dellore
——The tyrannical father in "Double-Faced Lover"
Text: Six Stones
In the new film "Double Lover", the New French Extremism (New French Extremism) and queer identity Francois Ojon still does not shy away from expressing "sex, cheating and eroticism" in the film , but this expression is a method that is not completely explicit, but uses a fairly stable image symbol system to beautifully complete the exploration of the body and erotic desire, and rarely releases suffocating hatred and anger. Although the sex and body in Ou Rong's eyes are as still as lake water. But from the teenager who killed his father with a gun in "Victor" to the ghost sister who was entangled with Chloe in "Double Lover", what he experienced was Ou Rong's calming breathing, and in the implicit expression, The recognition of the father's law can even be said to be hopeless.
"Double-Faced Lover" tells the story of Chloe, who fell into a mental illness and sought the help of a psychiatrist Paul. During the treatment, Chloe fell in love with Paul, but accidentally discovered that Paul had concealed from her that he had a twin brother, Louis. In the relationship between the two brothers, Chloe gradually fell into a loss.
In the film, the fact that the identity of "father" is always absent, whether it is Chloe, Paul, or even Sandra in the fantasy has no father, the identity of father has never appeared, only Chloe's mother, appeared during his hospitalization. This hidden "father" is not only a glorious self-ideal, but also a perverted desire, and because of a certain taboo, the latter is an unspoken forbidden place
In essence, Louis and Paul are the "fathers" in the structure of the film, but the two functions of the father symbol are assigned to them. Lacan's assertion on family relations in "Family Complex in Individual Modeling": The father image is constructed by functions. Before the emergence of the capitalist nuclear family, the father had two functions: 1. Self-ideal with calming effect; 2. The forbidden superego of cruel oppression.
Žižek, the successor of Lacan, believes that the two functions are essentially separated from the executive function. Once the identity of the ego ideal and the forbidden superego is proved, the offspring must constantly imagine the struggle against the father, despite the stigma. Its father will be killed, but its ghost will live on and be internalized by the offspring. Primitive tribes avoided the exposure of identity by identifying with animism, using totems, and religion to transfer one to another quite divine father. But the two functions of the father in modern capitalist society converge in the biological father, overloading this symbolic identity and creating a "crisis of investiture"
Compared to Paul, Louie has a strong personality and talks about his dominance over Paul everywhere, whether it's beast time, weight, and the past tradition of killing the second child. But his strength essentially came from a kind of frustration. When Chloe said, "Paul is the strong one, he fucked you", he couldn't bear the fact that Phyllis was lacking, and he was furious. Hit Chloe. He couldn't give up his sexual initiative and stopped her when Chloe tried to gain the upper hand of Phoebus (rejecting Chloe's sexual initiative during sex), he controlled Chloe as a superego above everything, making She obeys, belongs to her own original music, and he is the tyrannical superego function. Paul's character is more introverted, and Chloe is more gentle. In dealing with the issue of sexual initiative, he is completely different from Louis. Allowing Chloe to have sex with him with a dildo shows that he did it for her. This kind of action Implying her possession of Phyllis and the possibility of being that ideal self, Paul represents the ideal function of the ego in the father symbol. The discovery of the twin relationship between the two is actually equivalent to the confirmation of the identity of the two functions. For Chloe, it is an "empowerment crisis".
Although Chloe is well aware of Louis' tyranny in this relationship, it cannot be completely cut off, because the end of this relationship does not rely on "removing" the father's law, but internalizing the father's law.
Zizek believes that the essence of the myth of the original father represented by Oedipus is superficial, and what human beings need is not the pure killing of the father, but the internalization of the law after the death of the father. If the father really dies, there is no way to enjoy himself. In his point of view, what really makes people coveted is not a simple phallus, but from his father. To be precise, it is only in the name of the tyrannical father. This kind of thing is the "evil father's essence". -thing)” is actually the father himself—the tyrannical, representative of the original music, who existed before his father’s murder and instructed the emergence of the next generation of agents. It can be said that the father's enjoyment is the starting point of the offspring's enjoyment and all internalized laws. This recalled father, Zizek called the "anal father" because it was about the most primitive pleasure, the hidden tyranny, corresponds to the "anal period" in Freudian theory. Subconsciously, Chloe wanted to be that Louie. In fact, she was almost Louie. The shriveled and replaced Paul ex-girlfriend in her imagination was undoubtedly the product of her tyranny over Louie; in reality, Chloe The twin sisters in Yi's womb that she sucked and drained are the masterpieces of her internalized tyrannical father.
It is quite meaningful that when Louis was shot, Chloe suddenly had abdominal pain, and the sister "Sandra" in the abdomen stretched out her hand, and all the answers were revealed. This scene of shooting is just like the murder of the father in Oedipus. When the tyrannical superego father was murdered, it was also the moment when the "father" returned, and the name of the father was internalized. In this way, the glass was finally broken. Sandra is the same Trinity, tyrannical superego father with Louis and Chloe.
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