Incubus: The Nightmare Materialized. When Aggressiveness becomes Violence
Incubus: The Nightmare Materialized. When Aggressiveness becomes Violence

Summary/Abstract: The paper explores the tension between aggressiveness and violence regarding the intentional pressure (Lacan). It gives an account on thephenomenological take on intentionality in favor of the idea that the subject-objectrelation is indispensable for the conscious being. Psychoanalysis goes further andshows that such a relation has also an unconscious element which is essentiallyaggressive and structural. In order that the aggressiveness does not become violence,a process of sublimation is needed. This paper demonstrates that in nightmare sucha process is deficient, having to do with the forbidden object. Consequently, thequestion of incest arises. The movie The Incubus (1982) is a good example of what happens when the limit between subject and object is pushed, and it shows what would happen if that limit was removed.

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