Cultures of Fetishism (46 page)

Hindenberg, Paul von, 168 Hitler, Adolph, 168

“hobbyist”, 80

see also
“Amputee Love” Hoddeson, David, 98–9

Holden, Stephen, 69, 175

Holy Family, The
, 164–5

House of Usher, The Fall of the
, 66 house arrest, Derrida, 114, 190

humanoid, 158–60

hunter-gatherers, 69–73, 75

Barundi, 71

Dakota (Sioux), 72–3

Kau, 75

Nbembu, 72

Tiv, 73

Hussein, Saddam, 4, 31

Huston, John (
The Misfits, The Asphalt Jungle
), 55, 57

Hysteria, 51–2, 59, 63, 159

IBM, 164

I, Asimov
, 156

I, Cyborg
, 176

I, Robot
, 156

I, Robot
(film), 166

i Robot (factory), 157

see also
Brooks, Rodney Id, 118, 124

iPod, 3, 175

In My Skin
(film), 9

character in: Esther;
see also
Holden, Stephen (review)

initiation, rites of, 71–3 Dakota Sun Dance, 72 Virgin Ritual, 73

see also
anthropologist, hunter- gatherers, writing on the skin

Iran, 31, 35

irony, 111–13

Isakower, Otto, 116–18 Islamic Republic of Iran, 33

James, Henry

Edel’s biography of, 95,

burning of letters and papers, 101 Japan, Land of the Robots:

Honda (Asimo), 162 NEC (Pe Pa Ro), 165

Osaka (Repliee Q1), 165 Sony (Aibo), 63

(Qiro), 64

Waseda (Robita), 165

Jeremiah, 155

Jones, Ernst, 19

Kaplan, Fred

archive fever of, 102–3

Gore Vidal
, 102–3

reviews of, 102–3

Karl, Frederick, “The Long and the Short of It.”, 105–6

on brief biographies, 105–6

on James Atlas biography of Saul Bellow, 106
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on Mary Gordon biography of Joan of Arc, 105

on Edna O’Brien biography of James Joyce, 105

Kautzky, Karl, 137

Keats, John, 122, 124, 182, 190

see also
certainty/uncertainty, negative capability

Keller, Helen, 74

Kepcher, Carolyn, 150

Kernberg, Otto, 114–15, 119 Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah, 32 Kidman, Nicole, (
Eyes Wide Shut
), 61 Kirsner, Douglas, (
Unfree Associations
),

113, 113n, 116

Kismet, (robot/android), 160–6

characteristics of, 161, 163, 166 drives (social, stimulation, fatique),

161–2

facial expressions, 161–2 interactions with humans, 161–2 participant in
Dolly
, 160

speech comprehension, 163

Klosterman, Chuck, 152–3, 158–9

knot of not-knowing, (Dimen), 124, 190

Korot, Beryl, 159

Kris, Anton, 119

Kris, Ernst, 119

Kris, Marianna, 119

Kubrick, Stanley (
Eyes Wide Shut)
, 61–8

L Word, The
, 30 Latent content, 125–6

see
manifest

Lear, Jonathan, 123 knowingness/unknowingness

lesbian, 30

Levi, Primo,
The Periodic Table

Carbon, 171–3, 182

Zinc, 182–3 Lewis, Sinclair

biography by Mark Schorer, 99

li
(reason) as compared with
yu
(human desire)

libido, 24

Lincoln, Bruce, 72

Lingis, Alphonso, 75, 82

Lo, Vincent, 146

Lotus (sizes and shapes of bound foot), 41–5, 76

Golden, 43

Silver, 43

Iron, 43

New Moon, 43

Phoenix Head, 43

LOVE, 19

Madonna, 3

Mahler, Margaret, 122–3 Male sexuality

feminine identification, 28 identification with father, 29 repudiation of femininity, 29, 30

masculine protest, 30

manifest content, 125–6

see
latent

Marx, Jenny (nee Baroness von Westphalen), 141

Marx, Karl, 6, 93, 101, 130–43

archive fever, 132, 138 compared to Engels, 134–6 Dialectics, 137

dialectical motion, 136 personal characteristics of,

132–6

relationship with Engels, 134 Writings:

“Alienated Labour”, 133, 142

Capital Vol. I., 6, 131, 134, 137

“Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon”, 136, 189

“Fetishism of the Commodity and its Secret,” (in
Capital
), Vol. I), 6, 131–4, 140

“On Fetishism”, 133

The Holy Family, with Engels, 134 “Manifesto of the Communist

Party,” with Engels, 136 “On the Power of Money In

Bourgeois Societies,” 133 “Speech on the Anniversary of the

People’s Party,” 6, 93, 153,

157, 172

“The Working Day,” (in
Capital

Vol. I), 6, 142–3

Maturana, Humberto, 166–7

see also autopoiesis

matches, child labor in manufacture of, 142–3
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see also
“Working Day”

Matrix, The
, 61

Maurois, Andre, 99 transference to biographical

subjects

McGregor, Ewan
(The Pillow Book)
, 87 memorial, to horror of castration

(fetish as), 16

memory, retroactive, 125

menstruation, 75–7

Miller, Arthur (
The Misfits
), 55–7 Ming dynasty, 36

Misfits, The
(film), 54, 55–7, 60–1, 90 characters in: Gay; Guido; Perce;

Rosalyn

Mobius strip, 74–5, 78, 90, 128, 171

Money, 126–7

Monroe, Marilyn, 53–8 (
Asphalt Jungle, The, Niagara, Misfits, The
)

aka Norma Jeane, 57

as cultural commodity, 58

as female, female impersonator, 53 as sex goddess, 53

Morganthaler, Hans, 124

Mother-infant dialogue, 184, 187 Mother Nature and apocalyptic fantasy,

58, 60, 90, 92, 184, 187

Muslim, 85

Nafisi, Azar, 32

Nature morte

see also
Pronk, 13 necrophilia, 6–7, 62

as fourth principle of fetishism strategy, 14, 122–3

negative capability, 122–4, 182, 190

neo-confucianism, 36–7, 177

New York Psychoanalytic Institute, The, 113, 113n, 116–17,

119–20

Niagara
(film), 54–5, 60–1, 90 characters in: Cutler, Polly; George;

Loomis, Rose; Ted

Norwich, William (“Rubber Maids”), 3 Nostalgia, 188

nu shu
, 35

oedipus complex, 22–3

Oedipus Tyrannus, 123

Ollman, Bertell, 137n, 138

Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual
, 60

Opisthotonus
, 51, 54

orgasm, 7

Ostow, Mortimer, 60, 119

Ovid, 63

Pahlevi, Muhammad Reza Shah, 31 Painter, George D., 104

biography of Marcel Proust
Palimpsest
(Vidal memoir), 103 penis, 16

penis envy, 29, 30

Periodic Chart of the Elements, 169 Peters, Jean (
Niagara
), 55

Piano Teacher, The
(film), 68 character in: Ericka

Pichler, Hans (Freud’s surgeon), 18–19

Pillow Book, The
(film), 84–92 characters in: Hoki; Jerome; Nagiko;

Nagiko’s father; Publisher; Nagiko’s writings on the skin, 88–9; Book of the Lover (made into Publisher’s pillow book), 89; Book of the Dead, (Publisher’s sentence of Death), 89

Sei Shonogan, author of original Pillow Book, 86

Plea for a Measure of Impurity, 184, 190

Potters, “Working Day”

Poe, Edgar Allen (
House of Usher
), 66 Probst, Jeff, 149

Pronk (
pronken)
, 12, 13

Proust, Marcel, 104

Pygmalion-Galatea fantasy, 163, 165

Qing Dynasty, 36

Race for the bottom, 144–5 Race for the top, 145 Reaganomics, 13, 177

Real World, The
(RW), 151–3, 158–9

Reality TV, 5, 14, 147–53

Reich, Steve, 159

repetition compulsion, 137, 189

see also
“Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

robot, 9, 153
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abilities, 167

derivation of name (rabota-Czech), 155

energy supplies, 166

muscle fibers as fuel cells, 167 forms of, 156

difference from androids, 156

see
three ethical rules Robotization of humans, 153, 179
Romeo and Juliet
(in
The Pillow

Book
), 88

Ross, George, 147

Rossum’s Universal Robots
, 155
see also

Capek

Salome, Lou-Andreas, Freud’s letters to, 20, 24

Samurai, 82

Sarandon, Susan (
Thelma and Louise
), 59

SAVAT, 33

Schorer, Mark, 99

biography of Sinclair Lewis, 99 transference to, 99

Schnitzler, Arthur

Traumnovelle
translated as “Dream Story,”: basis for
Eyes Wide Shut
; Albertine and Fridoline: basis for; Alice Harford and William Harford

see also
Kubrick, Stanley, Kidman, Nicole and Cruise, Tom

Schowalter, Elaine

on
Sex and the City
, 10

scutching mills (“Working Day”), 143

Secretary
(film), 68 character in: Lee

sensai
, 82

Service Employees International Union, 143

Sex and the City
, 10, 11, 30, 38

Sherry, Norman, 102

biography of Graham Greene, 102 transference to Greene, 102

shift system (“Working Day”), 143 Shiite, 31

Smith, Dinitia, 10, 102

shopping, compulsive, 183

Silicon, 168

compared with Carbon, 169–73

skin, 74, 80, 171

dermis–epidermis, 78,

Mobius strip. model of, 75, 171

mutilation of, 73

texture of, 84

writing on, 69

see also
Anzieu (
A Skin for Thought
); tattooing

Skin Museum, 89

see
flogging

Sokolowski, Robert, 170–1, 185

Stern, Andrew, 43

stigma indelible
, 16

Stiletto, 2, 3, 7, 10–12, 183

Stiletto
(Cox), 11

Strachey, Lytton, 94, 100

Eminent Victorians
, 94, 100

Queen Victoria
, 100

writings about biography, 94, 95, 97,

100, 107, 172, 187, 190

little bucket for collecting data, 94 strategies for “attacking” the

subject, 100

personality, as seen by Edel, 100 homoeroticism, as interpreted by

Edel, 100

Stranglove, 65

structural model, in psychoanalysis, 109, 109n, 125

surplus labor, 6, 131, 138–9 and first principle of fetishism

strategy, 138

and vampire mentality, 131–2, 139 superego, as compromise

formation, 121

Swift, Jonathan, 140

Tattooing designs, 81

traditions of contemporary design, 81 Bushido, procedure, 82

see also
skin; dermis; epidermis Technology, 179–80

Technology-driven culture (world), 173, 175

Terminator
, 82

see Alien

Thelma and Louise (film), 58–61, 90

characters in: Louise; Thelma

Thanatos
, 189

see also
Death Instinct

Thirteen
(film), 69
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see
Denby, David (review), 69 three ethical rules of robots

original, Campbell but attributed to Asimov, 156

variations, 166

Three Tales
, 159

see also Hindenberg, Bikini, Dolly

Thurman, Judith, 4

Topographical model, in psychoanalysis, 109, 109n, 125

Transference, in biography, 96, 96n, 97–9, 112, 125

see also
countertransference transhumanism, 169

Trauma, 59–60, 124–6, 188

Trump, Donald, 146, 149, 176

Turner, Victor, 72

Uncanny, 13

unheimlich
, 13

underwear as outerwear, 3 Updike, John

essay on biography, 104–5

vagina, 43

vampire (bats, birds), 131–2, 140

vampire principle, 6, 139

relationship to surplus labor, 6, 139 as “secret” of commodity fetishism,

6, 139

Van Gennep, 71

Varela, Francisco, 166–7

see also autopoiesis

Venus envy, 30–1

Vidal, Gore, 102–3

see also
Kaplan, Fred Vienna, 65

Vita-More, Natasha, 168–71

creator of Primo, 168, 171

director of Extropy Institute, 168–9

see also
extropianism

Wachtel, Paul, views on Psychoanalysis, 127

consumerism of parents, 127–9, 179 consumerism of patients, 127–9

Wallach, Eli (
The Misfits
), 56 Warwick, Kevin, 176–7

Warnaco, 144

Williams, Roger, 144

Willis, Ellen, 104 Wilson, Edmund

To The Finland Station
, 140 on Engels, 141

on Marx, 140–1 Wineapple, Brenda

“Mourning Becomes Biography”, 107

Wise Man Takes All
, 146 Wittman, Blanche, 51–2 Wolff, Wilhelm, 141, 141n Woolf, Virginia, 94–5

Flush, 95

Orlando, 94

views on biography, 94–5, 187

“Working Day, The”, 6, 141–3 Writing

bridge between computer and human brain, 170

bridge between artificial and natural intelligence, 170

on the skin, 38, 71–91, 175,

178, 184

transformative power of, 38, 185–6

magical thinking and, 185 and therapeutic zeal, 92, 185 Nagiko in
Pillow Book
, 186
see also nu shu

Writing Lives, Principia Biographica, ix
, 97

see also
Edel, Leon

Wu, Vivian (
The Pillow Book
), 86