‘Epilogue’ by Ania - PowerPoint Presentation

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‘Epilogue’ by Ania Walwicz (this is not the complete poem)

Ms Rhiannon HallSlide2

1st Stanza

I am

Sigmund Freud

and I write ‘The case of Ania’. I put my beard on me now. I make notes. I am a famous writer. I dream about Freud. He is young, tall and handsome now and wears a starched white shirt front with a bow tie. He kisses me on the cheek and says: ‘It is all over now. Now is the time to fall in love’. I fall in love now. I fall in love with the doctor. I establish transference. It is all ‘as if’, as if but in fact it is the real thing. He is all wise and wonderful. I love a daddy. I am Sylvia. It is a dangerous position and the ‘Dangerous Method’ now. I am Dora and I am totally misunderstood. He keeps on smoking. He is imperious. His thoughts are over inclusive as a result of a cocaine addiction. He takes morphine. He fails me and denies me and falls asleep and doesn’t listen to me. He sits behind me when I lie on the couch and he doesn’t

Sigmund Freud’s views on women stirred controversy during his own lifetime and continue to evoke considerable debate today. "Women oppose change, receive passively, and add nothing of their own," he wrote in a 1925 paper entitled "The Psychical Consequences of the Anatomic Distinction Between the Sexes.“https://www.verywell.com/how-sigmund-freud-viewed-women-2795859 https://kirstyahawthorn.wordpress.com/literature/a-feminist-response-to-freuds-theory-of-femininity/Sylvia Plath reading ‘Daddy’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hHjctqSBwM Slide3

1st Stanza cont.

speak. I speak. I write my self analysis here. I am the doctor now but I

like to read him. I like to read his writing. I like his ideas now. I go to

his museum. I like on his couch. I sit in his chair. I write with his pen(the phallus). I have one now. I am Sigmund Freud and I am the grandhysteric. The only reason I write is to analyse me. I am the mad doctor who is mad now. I resolve everything through writing, by writing, inwriting, in speaking and speaking out aloud, by free association, by images in my mind; my dreams and day dreams. I record me and analyseme. I understand me. I write by displacement and condensation. I livein a dream. I read my text as a rebus. I am Emma Eckstein. He cuts mynose. He hurts me. He listens to me and my trauma and then he negatesme. He says that I imagine it all. I make up everything to me. I don’tknow how to use this. I run out of the library.

Rebus = a representation of a word or phrase by pictures, symbols, etc., that suggest that word or phrase or its syllables.Emma Eckstein (1865–1924): Emma Eckstein was an Austrian author. There was a belief that there was a profound relationship between the nose and the genitals. Freud referred his patient Emma Eckstein for surgery. Eckstein's turbinate bone was removed in a horrifically botched procedure that left her permanently disfigured. Eckstein remained friends with Freud, adopted his theories (one of which was that the prolonged haemorrhaging in her nose was the result of repressed longings for Freud), and became a psychoanalyst herself. As analyst, while working mainly in the area of sexual and social hygiene, she also explored how "daydreams, those 'parasitic plants', invaded the life of young girls".A glossary of Freudian terms: http://www.terrapsych.com/freud.html Slide4

3rd Stanza

I am

Carl Jung

and I am dictated to by a spirit. I listen and write. Ichannel an old wise man. I do drawings. I am Adolf Wöfli in the asylumin Berne. I am the Emperor of the Railway. I talk to my saucepansin Bollingen. I speak from fairytales. I am Ania Anima Animus. Mychairs speak to me. Everything opens up now. Everything is ah sharedand possible. I improvise now. Words come out of my mouth. I am inside my dreams now and in my sleepy sleep now. I am irresponsible,driven, given, mired, admired. I can’t help myself now. I do what Ifeel like doing. This leads me on now. I am in Beechworth, on thefar farm, in the walnut farm of a professor Walnuts. I listen to Wagner.I am melancholy. The music swells and rises now. I am Earlking

andErlkönig. He says to me – come to me my child. He speaks German tome. I put this away and it never goes away. I am Caspar Friedrich and Schopenhauer. I am all that is beautiful and glorious and wonderful. Iam false now and I am lying. I am sentimental now. I am in love and I am

unfaithful yet it is so pleasant to enter an irrational state. I enter the

flow now. A confluence and prescience. All that is meant to happen,

happens now. I can feel it in my finger.

Adolf

Wöfli

created an alternative world after he was interned for indecent exposure and attempted sexual assault.

Anima and Animus = Animus is the archetype of reason and spirit in women. This is the male aspect of the female psyche, as the anima is the female aspect of male psyche. http://www.carl-jung.net/animus.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN47s0mPfRU Schopenhauer wrote a famous essay ‘On Women’: http://www.heretical.com/miscella/onwomen.html http://www.theabsolute.net/misogyny/onwomen.html Slide5

4th Stanza

I am

Jacques Lacan

. I look in my mirror. I see me… Yes, this is me. Myunconscious structured like my story. I am spoken and I speak. I amspoken here. I evoke the Name of the Father (my mad father?). I talkin riddles now and I am playful and malicious. I speak and I am spokenhere. Malicieux, malicieuse. I reverse everything now. I take me backto nothing at all to a lack of a lack, to a little woman now. The littlehorse is my object a – a result of castration, a disappointment, trauma. Isearch for it and can’t find it and find it here. At last, I find it. I am the teddybear of Jean Paul Gaultier, with tiny paper breasts, painted lipsticklips and drawn on eyebrows now. I am a deflection, a transpositionnow. I teach now, my teaching. I write a lecture ‘My teaching is in fact, simply language…’ I am the master of myself. I am inventing alanguage langue. I cut my tongue.

Jacques Lacan recognises a female subject, sort of, but similarly to Freud has written about penis envy.https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Jacques_Lacan_and_Feminist_Epistemology.html?id=qxrUPDhU340C&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y (pg 90-91)Name of the Farther: The laws and restrictions that control both your desire and the rules of communication, according to Lacan. The Name of the Farther is closely bound up with the superego, the phallus, the symbolic order and the Oedipus complex. Symbolic Order: The social world of linguistic communication, intersubjective relations, knowledge of ideological conventions, and the acceptance of the law.Oedipus complex: For Freud, the childhood desire to sleep with the mother and to kill the father. Lacan and Freud were both interested in the case study of ‘Little Hans’ who was a 5 year old boy with a phobia of horses. Lacan believed that the horse could be the signifier for Little Hans’ father.

Gaultier had a teddy bear as a child which he dressed up.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/10745566/Jean-Paul-Gaultier-His-fluffiest-muse.html

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5

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I am Luce Irigaray that replies now that not so, not that and not thatand not like that, not me, not like that. I am non-linear now. I multiplyand multiply. Lady, I am a lady, always a lady lady. Lady lardy. Don’tforget me. The female subject that is me and isn’t me. And is me. Yes, isme. It doesn’t matter to me. I feel me. I am made like this. ‘She doesn’tknow who she is’. I am made out of this. This allows me to speak. I talkto a lady. I write to Marion. This is my letter to Marion. Dear Marion. Iam a lady, lady. I am a lady with a lady. I am a lady to a lady. I understanda lady now. At last I understand me.

Irigaray alleges that women have been traditionally associated with matter and nature to the expense of a female subject position. While women can become subjects if they assimilate to male subjectivity, a separate subject position for women does not exist. Irigaray's goal is to uncover the absence of a female subject position, the relegation of all things feminine to nature/matter, and, ultimately, the absence of true sexual difference in Western culture. In addition to establishing this critique, Irigaray offers suggestions for altering the situation of women in Western culture. http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/06/06/equality-luce-irigaray/ Some feminists have argued that Lacan's phallocentric analysis provides a useful means of understanding gender biases and imposed roles, while other feminist critics, most notably Luce Irigaray, accuse Lacan of maintaining the sexist tradition in psychoanalysis.[53] For

Irigaray

, the Phallus does not define a single axis of gender by its presence/absence; instead, gender has two positive poles.

Marion could be Made Marion of the Robin Hood stories who has been said to be the personification of the Virgin Mary.

She could also be Marion Zimmer Bradley, author of

Lady of Avalon

, which is a Feminist rewriting of The Knights of the Round Table and is influenced by the feminist theories of theorists such as

Irigaray.Arthurian Women: A CasebookBy Norris J. Lacy