Pixar with Lacan by Rösing Lilian Munk

Author:Rösing, Lilian Munk [Rösing, Lilian Munk]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781628920628
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2015-10-06T05:00:00+00:00

As a parent it is difficult not to be moved to tears by the successful relationships between fathers and sons in the film (thus fulfilling the intention of director Stanton: ‘I wanted to make it so that by the end of the movie, every male in the audience would have no choice but to cry’ (Paik 2007: 212)). But here one could take a warning from the image of the sentimental sharks that Dory and Marlin meet on their voyage. The sharks are hilariously staged as some kind of AA members, fish addicts trying to leave their addiction behind. In the film they are the ones to shed tears over Marlin’s love and longing for his son. The image of the sentimental shark points to a certain familiarity between sentimentality and brutality. The one who is sentimentally enjoying his own emotion is thereby able to avoid real feelings and empathy.

The film’s story of becoming the ideal father is finally a story about ‘delivering’, satisfying the big Other’s desire, including the spectator’s desire to be sentimentally touched. But the way that leads to this end tells a story about the (death) drive as the animating human principle, and how it can be transformed from a compulsive inertia into a productive stream of signifiers, just as Dory’s senseless repetition of the same syllables suddenly gives directions, or her monotonous refrain ‘Just keep swimming’ suddenly accompanies the rebellion of the exploited.

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