Masculinity in Melodrama: A Psychoanalytic "Gaze" at Written on the Wind
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1 Jacques Lacan had theorized that as human beings, "we have no power of our own, we construct a self in fantasy to make life bearable." 1 Fantasy becomes the primary domain for us to console ourselves, since, according to Slavoj Zizek, "fantasy space functions as an empty surface, as a kind of screen for the projection of desires: the fascinating presence of its positive contents does nothing but to fill out a certain emptiness…"
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