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DESCRIPTION:Laurence Rickels presents an exploration of the deep recesses of\n\nThe 
 Psycho Records\n\nfrom Wall Flower Press\n\nThe Psycho Records follows the 
 influence of the primal shower scene within subsequent slasher and splatter 
 films. American soldiers returning from World War II were called "psychos" 
 if they exhibited mental illness. Robert Bloch and Alfred Hitchcock turned 
 the term into a catch-all phrase for a range of psychotic and psychopathic 
 symptoms or dispositions. They transferred a war disorder to the American 
 heartland. Drawing on his experience with German film, Hitchcock packed 
 inside his shower stall the essence of schauer, the German cognate meaning 
 "horror." Later serial horror film production has post-traumatically 
 flashed back to Hitchcock's shower scene. In the end, though, this book 
 argues the effect is therapeutically finite. This extensive case study 
 summons the genealogical readings of philosopher and psychoanalyst Laurence 
 Rickels. The book opens not with another reading of Hitchcock's 1960 film 
 but with an evaluation of various updates to vampirism over the years. It 
 concludes with a close look at the rise of demonic and infernal tendencies 
 in horror movies since the 1990s and the problem of the psycho as our most 
 uncanny double in close quarters.\n\nLaurence A. Rickels is professor in 
 art and theory at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe. He is the author of 
 Aberrations of Mourning (1988), The Case of California (2001), Nazi 
 Psychoanalysis (2002), The Vampire Lectures (1999), The Devil Notebooks 
 (2008), Ulrike Ottinger: The Autobiography of Art Cinema (2008), I Think I 
 Am: Philip K. Dick (2010), and Germany: A Science Fiction (2015).\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790925.php
SUMMARY:An Afternoon of Pre-All Hallows Eve Mischief with Laurence Rickels
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\n261 Columbus Ave\nSan Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/09/06/18790925.php
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