Nightmares and Jokes
Nightmares and Jokes
Author(s): Sara Rodowicz-ŚlusarczykSubject(s): Philosophy, Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychoanalysis, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Presa Universitara Clujeana
Keywords: nightmare; joke; horror; uncanny; enigma; dream-play; jouissance;
Summary/Abstract: The theme of the nightmare is not a very easy one to approach. Quiteobviously, we are dealing with something highly unpleasant, but what contributesto the challenge is also the aspect of experience – the experience of the nightmare,and this is implies something that is lived. Thinking about experience, trying to getsome knowledge out of it – some kind of knowledge about the worst – is already ameans of distancing oneself from it. I suppose one of the ways in which we coulddefine the distress proper to the nightmare is precisely that one cannot get out of it.And it is also what makes the vital need of a separation so urgent, the need expressedin awakening.
Journal: International Journal on Humanistic Ideology
- Issue Year: XIII/2023
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 37-45
- Page Count: 9
- Language: English