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by
FRED PFEIL
Center for the Humanities
Oregon State University
<centerfh@ccmail.orst.edu>
consider our deepest and strongest desires are not our own,
that our dreams and fantasies are only copies, audio- and
videotapes, of the desires of others and our utterances of
them lip-synching of these circulating, endlessly reproduced
and reproducible desires" even before the generic mix is
evident and the sexual-psychoanalytic heyday/mayhem
begins.^7^ What fascinates and appalls in _Blue Velvet_,
what simultaneously underwrites and undermines the mixed
messages of its generic play and desublimated oedipality, is
the sense of the fragility of the Symbolic, its
susceptibility to the metonymic "disease" of constant
slippage that is always already inside it, a %gynesis% of
both film and family that irresolves without overthrowing,
that keeps home un-natural while forcing us to own up to the
familiarity of all that is officially Other and strange,
home-making and *and as* dislocating, from blue-sky
beginning (plenitude or emptiness? true blue or fake void?)
to blue-sky end.
variously both high and low, at the hip and the masses, the
catastrophe "That it goes on like this" is at no small
expense made into a little fun.
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