The Pervert's Guide To Cinema Page #3

just striving for pleasure,

likes children, plays with children and so on.

But, at the same time,

possessed by some kind of

primordial evil, aggressive all the time.

And this unique combination

of utter corruption and innocence

is what the id is about.

Get off there. Get off that table.

What do you think this is here, anyway?

Put that down.

- Lunatic!

- Stop it.

Stop that, here!

- Hey, you want to break that?

- Get him out of here.

Here, let it alone.

- Dr Klein?

- Yes, I'm Dr Klein. This is Dr Taney.

- How do you do?

- I'm Sharon. Things have gotten worse

since I phoned you.

I think you better come upstairs.

- Is she having spasms again?

- Yeah, but they've gotten violent.

Did you give her the medication?

Voice is not an organic part of a human body.

It's coming from somewhere

in between your body.

- Mother, please!

- Mrs MacNeil, this is Dr Taney.

- Please, Mother, make it stop!

- What is it? What's happening?

- It's burning! It's burning!

- Do something, Doctor. Please, help her!

Whenever we talk to another person,

there is always this minimum

of ventriloquist effect,

as if some foreign power took possession.

Let the enemy have no power over her.

And the son of iniquity be powerless to harm her.

Your mother sucks c*cks in hell,

Karras, you faithless swine!

Remember that at the beginning of the film,

this was a beautiful young girl.

How did she become a monster that we see?

By being possessed, but who possessed her?

A voice. A voice in its obscene dimensions.

See the cross of the Lord.

Begone, you hostile powers.

The first big film

about this traumatic dimension of the voice,

the voice which freely floats around

and is a traumatic presence, feared,

the ultimate moment or object of anxiety

which distorts reality,

was in '31, in Germany,

Fritz Lang's The Testament of Dr Mabuse.

You and the woman

will not leave this room alive.

Monster!

Stop, please!

We do not see Mabuse till the end of the film.

He is just a voice.

You will not leave this room alive.

And to redeem through your son,

who lives and reigns with you

in the unity of the Holy Spirit,

God, forever and ever.

- Amen.

- Good Lord, hear my prayer.

So, the problem is, which is why

we have the two priests at her side,

how to get rid of this intruder,

of this alien intruder.

It is as if we are expecting

the famous scene from Ridley Scott's Alien

to repeat itself.

As if we just wait for some terrifying, alien,

evil-looking, small animal to jump out.

There is a fundamental imbalance,

gap, between our psychic energy,

called by Freud "libido," this endless undead

energy which persists beyond life and death,

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