Film-Phil Lisbon Seminars: Lucas Ferraço Nassif

The next Film-Phil Lisbon Seminar will be led by Lucas Ferraço Nassif (IFILNOVA) who will talk about “Where the Desertshore Was, There Should Be the Crypt”. The session is hybrid and will be held on November 20, 2024, at 15:00 PM (Lisbon time), at Colégio Almada Negreiros (room SA) and online, via Zoom. To receive information about joining the meeting online, it’s mandatory to register in advance here.

Abstract

Assembled by Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok in the book “Le Verbier de L’Homme aux Loups” (1976), cryptonomy is a way of reading and writing with an undecipherable crypt that guarantees the impenetrability of the intra-symbolic inner worlds of the image. Yet, what are the contributions of cryptonomy, a concept from psychoanalysis, to philosophy, more specifically to philosophy or art and film, and for those who work with images? What philosophy can learn as a method with concepts that come from psychoanalytic clinics? What are the philosophical effects of operating with cryptonomy and “Twin Peaks: The Return” (2017)? As a tool of both research and production of concepts, what happens when cryptonomy is used to think and to feel with the TV show created by Mark Frost and David Lynch? To formulate a hypothesis, we debate Part 8 and the impact of the Trinity Test on the image of the desertshore — which will incorporate the explosion and its radiation, mutating its semiotic diagram of forces and building the crypt. “Twin Peaks: The Return” activates cryptonomy on the strength of its mysteries that will not be solved or have secured interpretations, confronting phallic comprehension. Thus, with cryptonomy, we may learn how to see and to listen to images on both the limit of meaning and the threshold of chaos. This presentation is part of my new book “Unconscious/Television”, soon to be published by Becoming Press.

Bio

Lucas Ferraço Nassif holds a Ph.D. in Literature from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. He’s a researcher at the Cinema and Philosophy Laboratory, part of the NOVA Institute of Philosophy, and a member of the Portuguese Center of Psychoanalysis. Director and editor of the films Reinforced Concrete, Being Boring, and Unfamiliar Ceiling/The Beast; and author of the book Missing Links, published by Barakunan, and awarded by the Association of Moving Image Researchers [AIM] in Portugal as the best monographic book of 2023.