Posted by floatingbridge on December 17, 2011, at 9:03:18
In reply to Re: Women, sex + death from vampires to psychoanalysis » floatingbridge, posted by sigismund on December 14, 2011, at 16:13:53
I needed to read about ergot poisoning. Here's the wiki link I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism
It passes through breast milk.
Personally, I would be very interested in what sort of story about sex and death a male diirector would come up with with an all male cast. I find something dreary in watching women suffer endlessly frame to frame.
I used to be an early Cronenberg fan. He was so wild. But after awhile, I could only see so many variants on vampiric women or sex as something contagious or rabidic. Call me jaded.
I find it interesting that the person who identified an equivocal drive within the sex/Eros drive was, by chance (or not) a woman who remained uncredited by Freud and Jung. Or the steamroller of history.
Btw, the link pulls up the entire picture, it's a triptych, yes? I just have poor resolution. I imagine the colors are glorious irl.
It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we make of what has been done to us.
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