#andre green

✍️De Quincey’s essay ‘Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow’ provided Dario Argento with the spark of an idea, which was further ignited by tales from his wife, who told him of her grandmother’s stay at a music school which was run by a coven of witches.

Furthermore, within these three films are several references to esoteric traditions, such as Hermeticism, Gnosticism, alchemy, and astrology, as well as esoteric figures such as Fulcanelli and Rudolf Steiner. (Hallam 2017.)🔺

🍻Places and buildings have connection to the history of the Nazi’s.🙋‍♂️

But Argento was also enthusiastic about the knowledge that "Three Mothers" appear in early Jewish mysticism. Look more for example Yetzirah (below). ✡️

”The second sister is called Mater Suspiriorum - -She never scales the clouds, nor walks abroad upon the winds. She wears no diadem. And her eyes, if they were ever seen, would be neither sweet nor subtle; no man could read their story; they would be found filled with perishing dreams, and with wrecks of forgotten delirium. - - She groans not. But she sighs inaudibly. - - Murmur she may, but it is in her sleep. Whisper she may, but it is to herself in the twilight. (DE QUINCEY 1845)”

The witch functions as stand-in for the subversive potential of female sexuality and solidarity. She constitutes a threat to the entire hierarchical structure of gender subjectivity, and thus she must be mutilated and destroyed. (Reich 2001)🤔

I have referred many times in my podcast to the psychoanalytical theory of Andre Green, about the (rejective/depressive) Dead Mother. This is an perfect example where the mother is destroyed & also her memory is destroyed. Like in Snow White, the bad and intrusive mother must be destroyed to gain power - at least in the fantasy - over the emotions, that you have been left outside.

🎞#Suspiria was shot using Technicolor like also Oz & Disney’s Snow White. Scenes from the latter are replicated in the movie.

At the beginning of an analytic session, what state of mind am I in for responding to what the situation requires of me? I think I am adopting an analytic position when, having endeavoured to keep my attention as free floating as possible – we will see that it is not straightforward, and sometimes runs into serious difficulties – I hear the analysand’s communication from two perspectives simultaneously. On the one hand, I try to perceive the conflictuality within him and, on the other, I consider it from the angle of the message, implicit or explicit, that it constitutes for me.The conflictuality to which I am referring does not concern the particular dynamic conflicts that could be identified by interpretation,but the way in which the discourse alternately moves towards and away from a meaningful nucleus or a set of meaningful nuclei which are trying to enter consciousness.It is not necessary to have a precise idea of what is activating or, on the contrary, inhibiting or diverting the communication, in order to notice the movement which sometimes carries it towards a more explicit or precise expression,and sometimes distances it from the verbalization of what is trying to communicate itself. One can, then, notice these variations intuitively even if one does not know the exact nature of the focal point around which they gravitate.This will appear more or less suddenly,sometimes perfectly clearly,and sometimes in a more accidental manner, in the course of the discursive process. It is in this latter case that floating attention undergoes a change of state and becomes investigative acuity,during a phase of reo-rganizing what has slipped under the fluidity of the ‘suspended’ reception of the analysand’s more or less free associative discourse...

This idea,one of Freud’s most audacious,still arouses criticism today. In fact, this concept is an essential cog in the psychoanalytic conception of time. It is linked with the primary processes, which are supposedly unaware of time just as they are of negation and doubt. We are always struck in psychoanalytic experience, by the persistence intact in adulthood, and even later, of childhood wishes. They reappear in the patient who does not seem to be aware that these manifestations belong to a very distant past. A striking example can be found in the sexual theories of children which continue to operate in the unconscious of adults.