I’m back!.. And I am accompanied by Orlok… well, not really, but today we are discussing the persistence of the Gothic through the (third) revival of the classic tale of Nosferatu. What is it about this story of fear, desire, and death that refuses to fade?
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Authors & Philosophers Mentioned :
-Bram Stoker
-Horace Walpole
-Edgar Allan Poe
-Mary Shelley
-Friedrich Nietzsche
-Emmanuel Levinas
-Carl Jung
-Georges Bataille
-Sigmund Freud
-Martin Heidegger
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Video Chapters :
0:00 Prologue
4:09 Part I – The Eternal Return of the Gothic
9:58 Part II – Confronting the Monster: Fear and “The Other”
16:23 Part III: Eroticism and the Abyss
23:32 Part IV: Gothic Spaces and Timeless Fear
27:45 Epilogue
SOURCES (not all mentioned):
The Raven – Edgar Allan Poe Poem: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48860/the-raven
Introduction to Nietzsche’s Eternal Recurrence: https://philosophybreak.com/articles/eternal-recurrence-what-did-nietzsche-really-mean/
Gothic in Literature: https://scalar.usc.edu/works/star-of-the-sea-a-postcolonialpostmodern-voyage-into-the-irish-famine/history-of-the-gothic
Brief History of Gothic Horror: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2018/10/18/brief-history-gothic-horror
Design History of the Gothic: https://www.evewaldron.com/post/design-history-gothic
Levinas’ “The Other”: https://www.thecollector.com/emmanuel-levinas-face-to-face-encounter/
Georges Bataille’s “Erotism & Death”: https://www.thecollector.com/georges-batailles-erotism-religion-death/
Heidegger’s Idea on Death: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405883116300077
Eros and Thanatos : https://www.theoi.com/articles/eros-and-thanatos/
The Making of Nosferatu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl1UKp5K_A0
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Excellent video! It's such a shame that Nosferatu still hasn't premiered in my country.. we'll have to wait until February for theatrical release
thank you so much for this super interesting video! i still havent watched the new nosferatu yet but i loved the previous one.
i love the way you use philosophical arguments and concepts, it makes it way more interesting!
something that ties within this realm could be addiction, as those that encounter addiction often have a yearning in their soul for the creative or spiritual practices but are conflicted by their addiction. But this addiction can highlight their potential for a greater pursuit, but poorly misdirected into something more self destructive. It’s present in the film when von franz says maybe in another life Ellen would be a great priestess, as she clearly has a connection and openness to something beyond the material world, but this has also opened her to the predatory instincts of Orlock, but is able to reclaim and overcome only from her death and marriage to this underlying inhibition
Collective fears. How tired can you be?
What a listen to enjoy a nice dark chocolate to! 🥀🍷
this was great! i was wondering whether you'd bring up freud or not but i'm glad you did LMAO. he and his ideas have haunted me (pun intended) since he's got some nasty ones about psychology but i have to admit in philosophy and literary studies (particularly horror) he is still so relevant. the ideas of repression just seem to show up everywhere, jung makes everything easier to understand with the shadow self and transgressive desires. never heard of batailles before but i'm sold and interested in his ideas of eroticism. i remembered hearing something about "la petit mort" being a euphemism for orgasm and it came to mind instantly… i wouldn't be surprised if that comes from him tbh it's so spot on.
freud's also got a pretty good definition of the uncanny! it can translate as un-homelike which has changed how i think of the feeling, both familiar and unfamiliar, often sometimes nostalgic or related to the past but warped. i'm so fascinated by the theory that horror genres act as a mirror and show societal/personal fears, consciously or not, and someone who embodies that as well as the gothic tradition is hp lovecraft, both his stories and the guy himself. as a horror author always writing about the fear of the unknown and the other while being overly xenophobic and anxious his entire life… his prejudices are so obvious in some of his best stories. i've been seeing more and more videos recently on topics like these from smaller channels, they're giving me lots of motivation to write too :' )
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Compelling perspective. Thank you. 🤘
Thank you for a wonderful video. It is a great video. Explaining the history of Gothic stories through the years. Nosferatu is a good movie. It was gross and scary. I enjoyed it. I'm more use to Dracula. Nosferatu is different. Lily Rose Depp was great in her role. Ellen was a odd person. Bill Skarsgard did good as Count Orlock. Gothic horror is a good form of story telling. It shows us are deepest darkest desires. That we try to hide from our selves and the world around us. Thank you for the video. It was fantastic.