THE PIANO TEACHER “Pain itself is merely a consequence of the desire for pleasure, the desire to destroy, to annihilate; in its supreme form, pain is a variety of pleasure.” (107) “The opposite sex always wants the exact opposite.” (143)

PEEP SHOWS

 shame, voyeurism, anonymity  simultaneously public and private, nameless, reductive  power, control, domination  shame, disgust, pleasure, mediation of desire through other  auto-/allo-eroticism | objectification | subjectivity  the Gaze – Laura Mulvey (Sartre, Lacan, Zizek)

PEEP SHOWS  immigration, race, ethnicity  class, economics, urban life  gender and sexual politics  shame, secrecy, anonymity, privilege, power  the GAZE | Objectification (subjectivity)  Precedents and Consequences for Erika

PEEP SHOWS  I – and and antecedent – the country cousin and first reported cutting subsequent – sees other young people in groups, flirting, dating, etc.  Erika goes to porn theatre greater violence, sadism, blurred interior/exterior – where is the mystery of women’s desire (and male desire for it)?  then to the park for some live-action voyeurism

PEEP SHOWS  I – and and antecedent – the country cousin and first reported cutting subsequent – sees other young people in groups, flirting, dating, etc.  Erika goes to porn theatre greater violence, sadism, blurred interior/exterior – where is the mystery of women’s desire (and male desire for it)?  then to the park for some live-action voyeurism

A LETTER ALWAYS ARRIVES  typically letters are love letters  romance, epistolary novels – seduction by words, images  long-distance seduction – even in Les Liaisons Dangereuses  commitment, affirmation, oath  the epistolary tradition in novels – record of truth, interiority, privacy, tenderness, detail, subjectivity, desire

A LETTER ALWAYS ARRIVES  In The Piano Teacher this all gets overturned  antecedent to the letter – the bathroom “seduction” 175ff.  then the letter – 214 ff.  and its consequences – c. 272ff.