{"id":424,"date":"2018-11-26T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T20:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=424"},"modified":"2021-05-05T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T10:38:33","slug":"event-crisis-what-crisis-fantasies-of-masculine-identity-in-contemporary-cinema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/?p=424","title":{"rendered":"Crisis? What Crisis? Fantasies of Masculine Identity in Contemporary Cinema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>An event exploring fantasies of masculine identity in contemporary cinema using psychoanalysis\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-429 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/poster8-212x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"439\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/poster8-212x300.png 212w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/poster8-768x1086.png 768w, https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/poster8-724x1024.png 724w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the Me Too movement to the Incel movement, from the click-bait soundbites of Jordan Peterson to the tearful performance of Brett Kavanaugh, there is a sense in the air that masculinity is facing some sort of crisis. When in Totem and Taboo, Freud sought to offer a myth to account for the origins of society, he placed the alpha-father at the centre, wittingly or not, linking society inextricably with patriarchy. This Lacan in Scotland event will begin with a brief presentation by Calum Neill which will explore Lacan\u2019s distillation and recuperation of Freud\u2019s myth and the ways in which it might help us to interrogate something of what is going on in current male identity. Key to this will be the distinction between myth and fantasy. Considering the latter in terms of contemporary cinema, we will be watching clips from and discussing a selection of popular movies, including George Stevens\u2019 Shane, James Mangold\u2019s Logan, Xavier Legrand\u2019s Jusqu\u2019 \u00e0 la Garde (Custody) and the Russo brothers\u2019 Avengers: Infinity War.<\/p>\n<p>Following the presentation, David Sorfa will problematise and extend the ideas explored with further clips and will chair an audience led discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calum Neill<\/strong> is Associate Professor of Psychoanalysis &amp; Cultural Theory at Edinburgh Napier University and Director of Lacan in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Sorfa<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Editor-in-Chief, Film-Philosophy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday December 5 at 18:30 \u2013 20:30\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Screening Room (G.04)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>**FREE AND OPEN TO ALL**<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1160989840724299\/\">Facebook Event<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An event exploring fantasies of masculine identity in contemporary cinema using psychoanalysis\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-past-events"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1007,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/1007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lacaninscotland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}