The Disney Fetish by Harrington Seán J.;Harrington Seán J.;

Author:Harrington, Seán J.;Harrington, Seán J.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Regression and Jouissance

While Fantasia was structured by eroticism in aid of a conscious utopia (the creation of a cross-class consumable product), the succeeding features of the pre-war era of Disney were structured by a threat levelled against the idealised image of primordial union with the figure of the mother: an unconscious utopia. This chapter begins its discussion of what would become Disney’s most affective narrative formula by clarifying the concept of the regressive, followed by analyses of Dumbo (1941) and Bambi (1942). These discussions introduce different aspects of the regressive narrative, the concluding points of which will be amalgamated in a conclusion to Part Two of this text: a conception of the Disney form as a regressive cinematic apparatus, utopian in its presentation.

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