Deri-Ben’likten Psişik Sarmala: Tiksinti’de (1965) Mekan ve Abject İlişkisi
From the Skin-Ego to Psychic Spiral: The Relationship Between Space and Abject in Repulsion (1965)

Summary/Abstract: The apartments, a symbol of urban life in the Apartment Trilogy by Roman Polanski, have been elaborated as uncanny structures that allow the abusive and the infringing structuring of the outside to infiltrate and shape the psychic apparatus. In The Apartment Trilogy, National Socialist regime that had caused the murder of millions of Poles and the totalitarian Soviet regime that had used the country as a satellite state for 44 years after the war are associated through the distinction of “inside” and “outside”. The first movie of the trilogy, Repulsion (1965) differs from the other two by putting emphasize on the psychical mechanism of disgust. The protagonist Carol feels an uncontrollable sense of disgust towards men and objects associated with masculinity. In this context, Carol’s endeavor of isolating herself from the outside by associating men and masculinity codes with the “outside” is addressed with concepts that scrutinize the effect of the body’s perception of inside and outside. The movie is evaluated through the perspectives of Sigmund Freud’s “uncanny” concept that he uses within the context of a sense that is both strange and familiar, Julia Kristeva’s “abject” concept that gives prominence to the identity and order of what is disgusting and the threat it poses to the system, and Didier Anzieu’s “skin-ego” concept which stipulates that the limit between the inside and outside of the skin is determined by the relations the subject has with the object and with the others.

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