The jumble of seemingly incongruous images and words were analysed to reveal the desires repressed in daily life.
The very fact that we are aroused by or attracted to some aspect of the Uncanny is due to the faint glimmer of the desire being repressed, and desire is a response to an aesthetic stimulus, however much the stimulus is attached as well to the sexual drives.
It is also a book replete with mummies and vampires, tyrants and prostitutes, murderers and freaks—figures that are fundamental to Schefer's conception of the cinema, because the worlds that cinema traverses (our worlds, interior and exterior) are worlds of pain, unconscious desire, decay, repressed violence, and the endless mystery of the body.
Because the child suspects that acting on these feelings would lead to danger, desires are repressed, leading to anxiety.
Though she did not love him with the Higher Love she felt for Capes, it was best if such desires were repressed.
That memo even specifically named, as a motivation for buying Cisco's equipment, the Chinese government's desire to repress the Falun Gong religious organization whose members were later tortured and murdered by the state.
In contrast, Adam Piette views the novel sequence as a failed epic, the product of a Cold War desire to repress change as illustrated by "Harriet's self-pityingly dogged focus on their marriage" without dealing with the radicalism of the war, and fate of its victims as represented by Guy and his political engagement.
Rouch and Morin expose the inner cost of that collective silence with a brilliant twist on their film's premise: if the French were neurotically unhappy, it wasn't only because of their repressed desire but also because of their repressed history.
"Among other things," she explains, "the position of the spectators in the cinema is blatantly one of repression of their exhibitionism and projection of the repressed desire into the performer".
Was it a subliminal expression of a repressed desire to be a powerful statesmen?
