Jedzenie jako oralna fiksacja. Filmowe rozważania o miłości i konsekwencjach jej braku
Food as an oral fixation. Film considerations about love and the consequences of its lack

Summary/Abstract: Experiencing the world though lips, as the newborn does it by sucking the mother's breast, is comforting the intensive stimulation of hunger, so eating provides relief, fulfills the need of not only repletion but also of the contact and the connection as well. Feeling hunger is experienced as frustration while getting the food as gratification. Film makers have often presented food on the axe with extreme polarities: frustration vs. gratification, showing the issue from multiple intriguing viewpoints. There is also another side of the same aspect; gloomy, shocking, sometimes disgusting. The intense frustration of the need for closeness converts into sadistic fantasies about damaging the objects that stimulate lust. Damaging them by devouring. X muse not only remained indifferent to this phenomenon but also questioned it in a way that frequently surprises with its esthetics and variety.

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