Video: «Mask, Doppelgänger, Daimon. The split of the ego in fantastic literature and cinema "

It's online on ours Youtube channel a short documentary lasting 20 minutes on the theme of the mask, the double and the fragmentation of the ego in fantastic literature (Hermann Hesse, EA Poe, ETA Hoffmann, HP Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti) and in cinema (Roman Polanski, David Lynch), with a closure on mask and daimon in "A Vision" by WB Yeats.

Marco Maculotti:
Mask, Doppelgänger, Daimon.
The splitting of the ego in fantastic literature and cinema.

AUDIO:
First part of Marco Maculotti's lecture at the event ONLY MASKS? AND THE FACE?, organized by the «Eumeswil Association» in Florence, on 5 December 2019.

ABSTRACT:
Since the dawn of time, the mask has been used by the human being as a symbol of the "other than himself" and at the same time as a symbol of his deepest being, beyond the contingency of everyday life. From the sacred initiation ceremonies to medieval carnival masquerades, from the disturbing literature of ETA Hoffmann to the cinema of Lynch and Polanski, the mask still rises today in the image of the double ("doppelgänger"), the dark side from which man continually tries to keep distances and at the same time, almost unconsciously, to get closer.

REFERENCE ARTICLE:
M. Maculotti: The human being as multiplicity: mask, "doppelgänger" and puppet.

Keyword:
Mask, Other-from-Self, Otherness, Proteism, Double, Doppelgänger, Splitting of the ego, Death of the ego, Automaton, Puppet, Puppet, Uncanny Valley, Daimon, Esotericism, Moebius strip.

AUTHORS cited:
Herman Hesse, Edgar Allan Poe, HP Lovecraft, ETA HoffmannRoman Polanski David Lynch, Thomas Ligotti, William Butler Yeats.

WORKS cited:
STORYTELLING: The Steppe Wolf (HH), The Man of the Sand (ETAH), william wilson (EAP), The Innsmouth mask (HPL);
ESSAYS: The conspiracy against the human race (TL), The Vision (WBY);
MOVIE THEATER: The tenant on the third floor (RP), Rosemary's Baby (RP), Twin Peaks (DL), Lost Highway (DL), Mulholland Drive (DL), Inland Empire (DL).

FILMS used:
Hermann Hesse's Long Summer (1987) william wilson (from Histoires extraordinaires, 1968), T (1992) Dagon - La secta del mar (2001) Spasm (1974) The Tenant (1976) Rosemary's Baby (1968) Fire Walk With Me (1992) Cast a Cold Eye - The WB Yeats Story (1987)

MUSIC used:
Fire + Ice - Ljósálfar (1992), Philippe Sarde - Main Theme (from The Tenant, 1976), Krzysztof Komeda - The Pain (from Rosemary's Baby, 1968), Angelo Badalamenti - Pink Room (from Twin Peaks, 1990).

Video editing:
Marco Maculotti