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Three Modes of Terror: Transcendence, Submission, Incorporation

Three Modes of Terror: Transcendence, Submission, Incorporation Nottingham French Studies. Vol. 46 No.3. Autumn 2007 THREE MODES OF TERROR: TRANSCENDENCE, SUBMISSION, INCORPORATION RICHARD RUSHTON In this article I discuss three modes of terror. The first, derived from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, sees terror as an operation of the narcissistic fusion of self and other: terror is produced when the ways of the world are reduced entirely to the narcissistic confines of the self.1 The second conception of terror, which emerges from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, understands terror as a mode in which the desires of the self are forgone in deference to the authority to which one submits. This second mode of terror is thus characterized by a willing submission to the other. A third notion of terror, taken from Lucile Hadzihalilovic's recent film, Innocence (France, 2004), posits terror as something that must be accepted as part and parcel of human existence. From this perspective, terror is not something which the human being should strive to transcend (as occurs in Nineteen Eighty-four) or to which one must submit (as is the case with The Remains of the Day). Rather, for Innocence, terror is something which must be incorporated. These claims are made from http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nottingham French Studies Edinburgh University Press

Three Modes of Terror: Transcendence, Submission, Incorporation

Nottingham French Studies , Volume 46 (3): 109 – Jan 1, 2007

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Edinburgh University Press
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© 2007 Nottingham French Studies
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0029-4586
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2047-7236
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10.3366/nfs.2007-3.009
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Nottingham French Studies. Vol. 46 No.3. Autumn 2007 THREE MODES OF TERROR: TRANSCENDENCE, SUBMISSION, INCORPORATION RICHARD RUSHTON In this article I discuss three modes of terror. The first, derived from George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-four, sees terror as an operation of the narcissistic fusion of self and other: terror is produced when the ways of the world are reduced entirely to the narcissistic confines of the self.1 The second conception of terror, which emerges from Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, understands terror as a mode in which the desires of the self are forgone in deference to the authority to which one submits. This second mode of terror is thus characterized by a willing submission to the other. A third notion of terror, taken from Lucile Hadzihalilovic's recent film, Innocence (France, 2004), posits terror as something that must be accepted as part and parcel of human existence. From this perspective, terror is not something which the human being should strive to transcend (as occurs in Nineteen Eighty-four) or to which one must submit (as is the case with The Remains of the Day). Rather, for Innocence, terror is something which must be incorporated. These claims are made from

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Published: Jan 1, 2007

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