Transferring <i>Suspiria</i>: Historicism and Philosophies of Psychoanalytic Transference

Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria (2018) aggressively foregrounds a term from the discourse of psychoanalysis, now relic twentieth-century philosophical and psychological thought, with which to negotiate sequence historical problems specific its articulation as remake (adaptation or reimagining) 1977 giallo by Dario Argento. The concept is “transference”. Transference traverses whole semantic field this film text, offering hermeneutic device that, we will show, structures conception execution. This interpretative tool affords us conceptual means appreciate decidedly querulous attitude that assumes regards source text. Lodged in what can be described an antagonism over “spirit” shot is, feel, profound difference opinion relationship between aesthetics politics, thus contest very film's “spirit”. Argento's classic deliberately “spiritualizes” political context creation, particularly setting during German Autumn 1977, order produce oneiric fairy-tale nightmare about innocence abroad. must sacrificed 2018 adaptation, rescue material basis amnesia posterity. own historicism general, it costs “terrible beauty” out violence terror. It materialist intervention culture recycling, offers, remake, critical reading apparently immune principle remake.