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‘But There Are No Lions in the Scottish Highlands’: Reading the trunk in Matka
- Source: Short Film Studies, Volume 4, Issue 1, Apr 2014, p. 51 - 54
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- 01 Apr 2014
Abstract
This article reads the trunk in Matka as Lacan’s objet petit a – a reminder of our desiring subjectivity and considers to what degree it might be seen as a MacGuffin. It also argues that the protagonist is an emblem of the human subject in an abstract representation of our life’s journey.
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